ANA BRAVO, PhD.

Profesor Contratado Doctor (Associate Professor) in Spanish Syntax and Semantics.

Department of Lengua Española y Lingüistica General http://www.um.es/web/lengua-espa/

Initially intended as an example of modal reasoning in everyday speech and life

And here there are some more

Schrödinger's Plates, Inertia worlds and circumstantial modal bases, all in one: “They are both broken and not broken until you open the door”. @ProfFeynman

https://twitter.com/ProfFeynman/status/1235215009170493441

El verbo que casi hizo naufragar el acuerdo contra el cambio climático

Francia cambió deberá por debería en el capítulo de obligaciones para que EE UU pudiera firmar el pacto de París http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2015/12/13/actualidad/1450002024_762685.html

PARIS — It took almost two weeks for negotiators from 195 countries to finally pass the landmark climate accord this weekend after several espresso-fueled all-nighters and long, passionate debates over the meaning of a single word, such as “shall.” TNY, 13.12.15 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/14/world/europe/a-climate-deal-6-fateful-years-in-the-making.html?rref=collection%2Fnewseventcollection%2Fun-climate-change-conference&action=click&contentCollection=earth&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=collection&_r=0

Pass your students you should

}}}}This one, I like it particularly (translation: who we are, teachers!; what we want? holidays!!; what for? Writing two papers, reading two books…

No happiness out of modality

Chomsky said.

This page was first created on December 2012.