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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818244403321

Autore

Eide Kristin M. <1965->

Titolo

Norwegian modals / / by Kristin Melum Eide

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2005

ISBN

3-11-089963-9

Edizione

[Reprint 2013]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 457 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Studies in generative grammar ; ; 74

Classificazione

GW 2367

Disciplina

439.8/256

Soggetti

Norwegian language - Verb

Norwegian language - Modality

Germanic languages - Modality

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [428]-452) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- 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

Sommario/riassunto

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.