Bělíková Zuzana The Modal Verb Could and its Equivalents in Translation

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Difference between InterCorp and the Subcorpus 
It is generally known that a picture is better than one thousand words. The first figure 
shows the number of occurrences of could in the whole InterCorp. There are 53,266 
occurrences of could. InterCorp consists of all texts that are in English and Czech versions 
are available. The texts are written by various authors from all over the world and they are 
not only native speakers of English but also foreigners or people who came to the United 
Kingdom, to Canada or to the United States of America during their lives. Some of them 
became the citizens of the countries. 

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Figure 1 The Occurrences of could in InterCorp
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Figure 2 shows how many times the modal verb could appears in my subcorpus. It means 
that I can work with a given number of examples in my research and this number cannot be 
changed because the subcorpus is immutable and nobody can use it but me. 9,112
of occurrences of could in the subcorpus is sufficient for my research and it can give me 
several answers to queries I make.
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https://korpus.cz/corpora/run.cgi/first?reload=&corpname=intercorp_en&queryselector=iqueryrow&iq
uery=could&lemma=&phrase=&word=&char=&cql=&default_attr=word&fc_lemword_window_type=both
&fc_lemword_wsize=5&fc_lemword=&fc_lemword_type=all&usesubcorp=&sel_aligned=intercorp_cs&pcq
_pos_neg_intercorp_cs=pos&queryselector_intercorp_cs=iqueryrow&iquery_intercorp_cs=&viewmode=alig
n – users must be registered 

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Figure 2 The Occurrences of Could in my Subcorpus
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https://korpus.cz/corpora/run.cgi/first?reload=&corpname=intercorp_en&queryselector=iqueryrow&iq
uery=could&lemma=&phrase=&word=&char=&cql=&default_attr=word&fc_lemword_window_type=both
&fc_lemword_wsize=5&fc_lemword=&fc_lemword_type=all&usesubcorp=American+Fiction+after+1950&
sel_aligned=intercorp_cs&pcq_pos_neg_intercorp_cs=pos&queryselector_intercorp_cs=iqueryrow&iquery_i
ntercorp_cs=&viewmode=align 

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