Modality and its interaction with the verbal system (John Benjamins, 2002)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Modality and its Interaction with the Verbal System; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; List of contributors; Preface; Current issues in modality; Modal verbs; Modality and polarity; Modals, objects and negation in late Middle English; On the use and interpretation of root infinitives in early child Dutch; Modals and negation in English; System interaction in the coding of modality; Modality and theory of mind; Negative polarity and modality inMiddle Dutch ghe-particle constructions; (Negative) Imperatives in Slovene; Modality and mood inMacedonian; Subject index
This book provides a broad overview of the issues relevant for the study of syntax of modals and their interaction with the verbal system. A large number of novel observations are offered from a variety of languages, including Dutch, (Modern and Middle) English, German, Lele, Macedonian, Middle Dutch and Slovene. The wealth of data, the critical evaluation of existing syntactic analyses of modality and the alternative analyses proposed make the book interesting for both for descriptively and for theoretically oriented syntacticians. Major concerns addressed are: the distinction between epistem