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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Main Author: Michael Richter
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Bern Open Publishing 2002-03-01
Series:Linguistik Online
Online Access:https://bop.unibe.ch/linguistik-online/article/view/925