Multiple modals construction

Autor/innen

  • Fabrice Nauze

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.44.2006.315

Abstract

Modal items of different semantic types can only be combined in a specific order. Epistemic items, for instance, cannot be embedded under deontic ones. I'll argue that this fact cannot be explained by the current semantic theories of modality. A solution to this problem will be developed in an update semantics framework. On the semantic side, a distinction will be drawn between circumstantial information about the world and information about duties, whereas I'll use Nuyts' notion of m-performativity to account for certain use of the modal items.

 

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2006

Zitationsvorschlag

Nauze, Fabrice. 2006. „Multiple Modals Construction“. ZAS Papers in Linguistics 44 (2):251-64. https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.44.2006.315.