Results and Discussion
At the outset of the investigation, the most frequent modal adverbs in the English subcorpus were identified and then their Polish equivalents in the Polish subcorpus were determined. As a result of the frequency count, the following modal adverbs were identified as most common: indeed (83 tokens), necessarily (36 tokens), not necessarily (35 tokens),[1]o/ course (35 tokens), clearly (32 tokens)[2] and obviously (18 tokens). All the other adverbs which had fewer than 10 occurrences were excluded from the analysis. For the individual translations and their frequencies, see Table 1.
In the remainder of this section I will illustrate, through examples, the usefulness of parallel corpora in exploring the polysemy of English modal adverbs of certainty, assuming that they can provide insight into what might remain unnoticed if only monolingual corpora were consulted.
