Time is of the Essence: Futurity and Modality in a Corpus of Dutch and English Contracts

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Slot, Laura van 't (2017)

Time is of the Essence: Futurity and Modality in a Corpus of Dutch and English Contracts

Master thesis | Linguistics (MA)

The aim of this research is to gain insight in how futurity is expressed within English and Dutch legal contracts and to define the relation between modality and temporality. It is hypothesized that futurity is not unequivocally expressed in contract language. Also, it is expected that not only within futurity but also within modality a potential degree of ambiguity can be found considering expression of epistemic, dynamic, and deontic modality.

Author: Slot, Laura van 't

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation: Legal translation

Supervisors: Foster, Tony

ECTS Credits: 20

Language: en

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Time is of the Essence: Futurity and Modality in a Corpus of Dutch and English Contracts