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1 online resource (xii, 457 pages :) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Studies in generative grammar ; 74
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Studies in generative grammar ; 74.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 428-452) and index. |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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| Summary |
Norwegian Modals is a detailed description of the syntactic and semantic properties of modals in Norwegian. The book thoroughly and critically evaluates previous proposals from the modality literature, focusing on argument structure, scopal properties and the interplay of modals with tense and aspect. After presenting a range of new data and generalizations, a new analysis is proposed, incorporating recent developments in generative linguistic theory and the construction of a new compositional tense system. This investigation is highly relevant for the study of modals and modality in Germanic and other languages. It will also be of value to linguists working on argument structure, tense and aspect, and to those interested in Scandinavian languages. |
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""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"" |
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""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"" |
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""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. L�drup (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"" |
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""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"" |
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""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"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Norwegian language -- Verb.
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Norwegian language -- Verb. |
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Norwegian language. |
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Norwegian language -- Modality.
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Germanic languages -- Modality.
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Germanic languages. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Eide, Kristin M., 1965- Norwegian modals. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2005 (DLC) 2005011454 (OCoLC)59360147 |
| ISBN |
9783110899634 (electronic book) |
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3110899639 (electronic book) |
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3110179962 (alkaline paper) |
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9783110179965 (alkaline paper) |
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