03619nam 2200637Ia 450 991046422730332120210626002501.03-11-089963-910.1515/9783110899634(CKB)3360000000338474(SSID)ssj0000777677(PQKBManifestationID)12267260(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000777677(PQKBWorkID)10758143(PQKB)11594138(MiAaPQ)EBC3041895(DE-B1597)56369(OCoLC)979693527(DE-B1597)9783110899634(Au-PeEL)EBL3041895(CaPaEBR)ebr10597666(OCoLC)922944876(EXLCZ)99336000000033847420050421d2005 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrNorwegian modals[electronic resource] /by Kristin Melum EideReprint 2013Berlin ;New York Mouton de Gruyterc2005xii, 457 p. illStudies in generative grammar ;74Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph3-11-017996-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. [428]-452) and index.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 --ReferencesNorwegian 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.Norwegian languageVerbNorwegian languageModalityGermanic languagesModalityElectronic books.Norwegian languageVerb.Norwegian languageModality.Germanic languagesModality.439.8/256GW 2367rvkEide Kristin M.1965-1036821MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464227303321Norwegian modals2457396UNINA