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| Other authors / contributors: | Abraham, Werner.
Leiss, Elisabeth.
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| ISBN: | 9789027290199
9027290199
1282105477
9781282105478
9789027229922
9027229929
9786612105470
661210547X
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | As Abraham (1990, 1991, 2005) has pointed out, aspect plays a crucial role, when epistemic modals (em) emerge out of root modals (rm). The present paper shows that the different aspectual preferences of those items are reflected by the differences in the configuration of the modal's event structure: whereas rm turn out to be event modifiers, em are propositional modifiers. In technical detail, rm select infinitival complements involving an event argument and assign to them a interval posterior to utterance time. em, on the other hand, can combine with any non-finite complement that constitutes.
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| Other form: | Print version: Modality-aspect interfaces. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, ©2008
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