| Title: | Stages of Grammaticalization for the Modal putea |
| Author: | Virginia Hill |
| Publication: | Revue roumaine de linguistique, LIV (1-2), p. 63-82 |
| p-ISSN: | 0035-3957 |
| Publisher: | Editura Academiei |
| Place: | București |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Abstract: | This paper argues that the Romanian modal putea ‘can’ went through a repeated re-analysis, reaching various stages of grammaticalization. The configurations underlying each stage differ from each other insofar as the modal merges at different levels in the clause hierarchy. This analysis accounts for: (i) the ambiguous deontic or epistemic reading of modal constructions out of the context; and (ii) the productive infinitive complementation for putea, in contrast to other verbs. |
| Key words: | possibility modal, grammaticalization, pragmaticalization, bare infinitive, speech acts |
| Language: | English |
| Links: |  pdf  html |
Citations to this publication: 2
| 1 | Florin Sterian | Bibliografia românească de lingvistică (BRL, 53, 2010). Lucrări de lingvistică apărute în țara noastră în cursul anului 2010 | LR, LX (3), 307-453 | 2011 | pdf html |
| 7 | Marta Donazzan, Alexandru Mardale | Additive and Aspectual Adverbs: Towards an Analysis of Romanian Mai | RRL, LV (3), 247-269 | 2010 | pdf html |
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