Modals and Periphrastics in English : : An Investigation into the Semantic Correspondence between Certain English Modal Verbs and Their Periphrastic Equivalents / / Paul Westney.
English has a number of periphrastic verbal forms that are semantically close to particular modal verbs and perform suppletive functions in relation to them (eg, have (got) to - must and be able to - can). After an exploration of the syntactic, semantic and phonological properties of potential perip...
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Place / Publishing House: | Tübingen : : Max Niemeyer Verlag, , [2013] ©1995 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Edition: | Reprint 2012 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Linguistische Arbeiten ,
339 |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Periphrastic forms
- 3. Approaches to this area
- 4. Must, have (got) to, need (to) and be bound to
- 5. Other modal-periphrastic sets
- 6. Conclusions
- Bibliography