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Norwegian Modals / Kristin Melum Eide.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] ; 74Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]Copyright date: ©2006Edition: Reprint 2013Description: 1 online resource (457 p.) : IllustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110179965
  • 9783110899634
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 439.8/256 22
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  • PD2661 .E33 2005eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
i-iv -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Table of contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Norwegian Modals: the Facts -- Chapter 3. Analyzing Modals: a Survey of Recent Proposals -- Chapter 4. Norwegian Modals: Argument Structure -- Chapter 5. Norwegian Modals, Aspect and Tense -- Chapter 6. Summing up -- References
Summary: Norwegian Modals is a detailed description of the syntactic and semantic properties of modals in Norwegian. Modal verbs in Mainland Scandinavian languages have received much less attention than their English and German counterparts, hence this book seizes the opportunity to present a range of new data and generalizations relevant for the study of Scandinavian languages, but also for the study of modality in Germanic and other languages. The book critically evaluates a range of proposals from the modality literature, focusing on the Theta-properties and the scopal properties of Modals in Germanic languages, and concludes that none of these previous proposals are able to account for the syntax of modals in Norwegian. The Theta-properties of modals are shown to depend on the construction in which the modal occurs, hence neither a raising analysis, a control analysis, nor a raising-versus-control analysis in fact suffices to exhaust these properties of Norwegian modals. The interplay of modals with tense and aspect is likewise thoroughly investigated, presenting a range of data revealing that existing universalist proposals are insufficient to account for even quite regular patterns. Instead, a new analysis is presented, building on a new compositional tense system which exploits aspectual features of predicates and selectional preferences of modal classes.
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i-iv -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Table of contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Norwegian Modals: the Facts -- Chapter 3. Analyzing Modals: a Survey of Recent Proposals -- Chapter 4. Norwegian Modals: Argument Structure -- Chapter 5. Norwegian Modals, Aspect and Tense -- Chapter 6. Summing up -- References

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Norwegian Modals is a detailed description of the syntactic and semantic properties of modals in Norwegian. Modal verbs in Mainland Scandinavian languages have received much less attention than their English and German counterparts, hence this book seizes the opportunity to present a range of new data and generalizations relevant for the study of Scandinavian languages, but also for the study of modality in Germanic and other languages. The book critically evaluates a range of proposals from the modality literature, focusing on the Theta-properties and the scopal properties of Modals in Germanic languages, and concludes that none of these previous proposals are able to account for the syntax of modals in Norwegian. The Theta-properties of modals are shown to depend on the construction in which the modal occurs, hence neither a raising analysis, a control analysis, nor a raising-versus-control analysis in fact suffices to exhaust these properties of Norwegian modals. The interplay of modals with tense and aspect is likewise thoroughly investigated, presenting a range of data revealing that existing universalist proposals are insufficient to account for even quite regular patterns. Instead, a new analysis is presented, building on a new compositional tense system which exploits aspectual features of predicates and selectional preferences of modal classes.

Issued also in print.

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In English.

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