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Page 70 of 330

  • Conclusion

  • Guglielmo Cinque, Università degli Studi di Venezia
  • Book:
    The Syntax of Relative Clauses
    Published online:
    10 September 2020
    Print publication:
    24 September 2020, pp 281-284

  • Summary

    This chapter summarizes the main results stemming from the double-Headed analysis of relative clauses proposed in this volume, with particular reference to the unification of all the attested relative clause types.

Language Contact
  • 2nd edition
  • Yaron Matras
  • Published online:
    18 September 2020
    Print publication:
    10 September 2020
  • Language contact occurs when speakers of different languages interact and their languages influence one another. Drawing on the author's own first-hand observations of child and adult bilingualism, this book combines his original research with an up-to-date introduction to key concepts, to provide a holistic, original theory of contact linguistics. Going beyond a descriptive outline of contact phenomena, it introduces a theory of contact-induced language change, linking structural change to motivations in discourse and language processing. Since the first edition was published, the field has rapidly grown, and this fully revised edition covers all of the most recent developments, making it an invaluable resource for researchers and advanced students in linguistics.

  • 7 - Modal Verb Semantics

  • from II - Verbal Modality
  • Werner Abraham, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
  • Book:
    Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics
    Published online:
    06 February 2021
    Print publication:
    17 September 2020, pp 188-210

  • Summary

    We develop the mereological property of distance to explain the aspect and Aktionsart contingency of modal verbs. While the link between perfective-resultative aspect and root modality seems to be solid, aspectual imperfectivity is in no such solid connection with epistemic modality. The question is why this is so.

  • 2 - (Inter)Subjectification and Foreign Consciousness Alignment

  • from I - Modes of Modality
  • Werner Abraham, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
  • Book:
    Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics
    Published online:
    06 February 2021
    Print publication:
    17 September 2020, pp 60-71

  • Summary

    The ubiquitous notion of subjectivity (or subjectification) is critically scrutinized. It will be shown that a certain class of discourse particles and a solid class of modal verbs in German are specific carriers of a wide set of modalities: intransitive ones with root and epistemic modalities expressed by verbs, and transitive modalities as emanating from and the speaker to the hearer and back.

  • 5 - The Perspectival Specifics of Verb Modality in German

  • from II - Verbal Modality
  • Werner Abraham, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
  • Book:
    Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics
    Published online:
    06 February 2021
    Print publication:
    17 September 2020, pp 132-156

  • Summary

    Modal verbs form a closed class of verbs in German(ic) to the extent that have a very particular origin and property: they come from a preterit stem, have ablaut, and behave correspondingly in modern contexts. Their shift of interpretation between root and epistemicity is due to aspectual contexts. In contrast to all other verbs, verbal clusters (modal verb embedding another verb) are built without the preposition TO. Modal verbs with an epistemic reading have a syntax radically different from that of roots: they cannot be embedded, but appear only as heads of clusters.

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