Norwegian Modals

Name: Norwegian Modals
Brand: De Gruyter Mouton
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Kristin Melum Eide(Autor*in)

De Gruyter Mouton (Verlag)

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Erschienen am 22. Dezember 2011

XII, 457 Seiten

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Intro
Chapter 1: Introduction
1. Norwegian modals: main verbs and auxiliaries
2. The central subjects of this investigation
3. The root-epistemic distinction
4. The framework
5. The data
Chapter 2: Norwegian Modals: the Facts
1. Introduction
2. Morphological characteristics
3. Semantic characteristics
3.1 A brief overview of some central modality terms
3.2 Two seminal formal semantic descriptions of modals
3.3 A semantic field of modality
3.4 The semantic properties of Norwegain modals
3.5 Modals, readings and n-place relations
4. Syntactic characteristics
4.1 Complements of Norwegian modals
4.2 Modals, ellipsis, and tags
4.3 Summary of findings
5. Summary and preliminary inventory
5.1. Examining our results
6. Three potential candidates
7 Final inventory and inventories of seven other languages
7.1 Norwegian modals: final inventory
7.2 Inventories of modals in seven other languages
Chapter 3: Analyzing Modals: a Survey of Recent Proposals
1. Two central notions
1.1. Theta-roles
1.2. Functional projections
2. Some earlier proposals
2.1. Roberts (1985)
2.2. Roberts (1993)
2.3. Roberts and Roussou (2002, 2003)
2.4. Cinque (1999)
2.5. Vikner(1988)
2.6. Thráinsson and Vikner (1995)
2.7. Barbiers (1995, 2002)
2.8. Lødrup (1996a)
2.9. Dyvik(1999)
2.10. Wurmbrand (1999, 2001)
2.11. Butler (2003)
2.12. van Gelderen (2003, 2004)
2.13. Picallo(1990)
3. Modals and theta-roles
4. Insertion or merger point of root and non-root modals
Chapter 4: Norwegian Modals: Argument Structure
1. Introduction
2. The control versus raising analysis
3. Modals in pseudoclefts
3.1 The relevant generalization: ± proposition scope
3.2 The pseudocleft construction
3.3 Modals and subject scope
3.4 Competing for subject positions: Theta relations vs. subject scope
3.5 Subject-orientedness and subject positions
3.6 Reanalysis verbs
3.7 Raising verbs and pseudoclefts
4. Explaining subject-orientedness
4.1. It is not a real Theta-role
4.2 Occational redefinition of argument structure
4.3 Double entries
4.4 Optional Theta-assignment
4.5 Evaluating the alternatives
5. The source of modality: Two semantic levels
6. Summary
Chapter 5: Norwegian Modals, Aspect and Tense
1. Introduction
2. Tense and aspect
2.1 Tense
2.2 Aspect
3. Aspect and tense of complements
3.1 Directional small clauses
3.2 The perfect
3.3 The progressive
3.4 The iterative
4. Modality, tense, and aspect: Scope, readings, and universality
4.1. Creole TMA systems and universalist hyotheses
4.2. TMA markers in Norwegian
4.3 Modal-aspectual sequences in other languages
4.4 Universalist approaches and the modal-tense-aspectual data
5. A compositional tense system for Norwegian
5.1 Julien (2000a, 2001)
5.2 A different approach
5.3 The function of ha 'have'
6. The properties of the complement: tense and aspect
6.1 Default and overrride
6.2 Truth values and tenses, verbs and directionals
7. The tense properties of root and non-root modals
7.1 The tense of root modals
7.2 The tense of non-root modals
8. Summing up
Chapter 6: Summing up
1. Introduction
2. The facts
3. Earlier proposals
4. Argument structure
5. Modals, aspect, and tense
6. Concluding remarks
References
Index

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