Modal Concord: A Case Study of Dutch
The combination of a modal verb and a modal adverb as may perhaps or must certainly may receive a concord interpretation, where the two modals communicate just a single modality. The present article uncovers the main restrictions on modal concord, concentrating on the way it is exemplified in Dutch, and surveys the recent literature on modal concord. Three possible analyses will be critically compared. The first is a syntactic analysis in terms of agreement, the second a semantic analysis in terms of type shifting and the last is a semantic analysis according to which adverbs denote ordering s... Mehr ...
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| Dokumenttyp: | TEXT |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 2012 |
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Oxford University Press
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| Schlagwörter: | Article |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29409199 |
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| Link(s) : | http://jos.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/ffr012v1 |
The combination of a modal verb and a modal adverb as may perhaps or must certainly may receive a concord interpretation, where the two modals communicate just a single modality. The present article uncovers the main restrictions on modal concord, concentrating on the way it is exemplified in Dutch, and surveys the recent literature on modal concord. Three possible analyses will be critically compared. The first is a syntactic analysis in terms of agreement, the second a semantic analysis in terms of type shifting and the last is a semantic analysis according to which adverbs denote ordering sources. The comparison will ultimately favor the third analysis.