Scope and semimodal verbs: two approaches
In this paper I focus on scope phenomena connected with semimodal (and modal) verbs and mainly on the syntactic behaviour of these groups of verbs. One important question is: why can semimodal verbs (and modal verbs in epistemic use) not have perfect and future tense forms? Taking among other things...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | deu |
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Bern Open Publishing
2002-03-01
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Series: | Linguistik Online |
Online Access: | https://bop.unibe.ch/linguistik-online/article/view/925 |