Bělíková Zuzana The Modal Verb Could and its Equivalents in Translation

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ANALYSIS .................................................................................................................. 31 
4 
RESEARCH INTRODUCTION ............................................................................... 32 
4.1 H
YPOTHESIS
........................................................................................................... 32 
5 
METHODOLOGY ..................................................................................................... 33 
5.1 C
ORPUS 
B
ASED 
R
ESEARCH
..................................................................................... 33 
5.2 T
HE 
C
ZECH 
N
ATIONAL 
C
ORPUS
.............................................................................. 34 
5.3 I
NTER
C
ORP
............................................................................................................. 34 
5.3.1 Subcorpus ....................................................................................................... 36 
5.4 D
IFFERENCE BETWEEN 
I
NTER
C
ORP AND THE 
S
UBCORPUS
....................................... 37 
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RESEARCH ................................................................................................................ 40 
6.1 I
NTERROGATIVE 
S
ENTENCES
................................................................................... 40 
6.1.1 Could I ............................................................................................................ 40 
6.1.2 Could You ...................................................................................................... 44 
6.1.3 Could He......................................................................................................... 47 
6.1.4 Could She ....................................................................................................... 50 
6.1.5 Could It ........................................................................................................... 53 
6.1.6 Could We........................................................................................................ 55 
6.1.7 Could They ..................................................................................................... 56 
6.2 C
OULD IN 
N
EGATIVE 
S
ENTENCES
........................................................................... 58 
6.2.1 Could Not ....................................................................................................... 60 
6.2.2 Couldn’t .......................................................................................................... 61 
6.3 V
ERBS OF 
P
ERCEPTION
........................................................................................... 62 
6.3.1 Could See........................................................................................................ 62 
6.3.2 Could Hear...................................................................................................... 66 
6.4 S
TATE 
C
OGNITIVE 
V
ERBS
....................................................................................... 68 
6.4.1 Could Know.................................................................................................... 68 
6.4.2 Could Forget ................................................................................................... 69 
6.4.3 Could Understand ........................................................................................... 70 
6.4.4 Could Remember............................................................................................ 71 

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C
ONCLUSION
.................................................................................................................... 73 
RESUME 
………………………………………………………………………….. ......... 75 
REFERENCE LIST
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L
IST OF TABLES
,
CHARTS AND FIGURES
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Philosophical Faculty, Palacký University Olomouc 
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