| Title: | Perfectivity might not scope over modality |
| Author: | Larisa Avram |
| Publication: | Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, XIV (1) |
| p-ISSN: | 2069-9239 |
| Publisher: | Universitatea din București |
| Place: | București |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Abstract: | The present paper provides an account of the behaviour of the English modals with respect to the perfective aspect of their complement. The differences in reading (external vs. internal perfect) are argued to be contingent on the structural position of the modal in syntax and on the availability of a polarity-changing conditionality feature on the modal. |
| Key words: | modals, perfective aspect, external perfect, internal perfect, counter factuality |
| Links: |  pdf  html |
Citations to this publication: 2
| 1 | Florin Sterian | Bibliografia românească de lingvistică (BRL, 55, 2012). Lucrări de lingvistică apărute în țara noastră în cursul anului 2012 | LR, LXII (3), 271-408 | 2013 | pdf html |
| 2 | Gabriela Alboiu, Virginia Hill | On Romanian Perception Verbs and Evidential Syntax | RRL, LVIII (3), 275-298 | 2013 | pdf html |
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