Constructions, pragmatics and modality
This paper rejects the commonplace view that the semantics of certain modal deverbal adjectives (MDAs), which have traditionally been assumed to be non-compositional, require complex lexical or syntactic encoding (cf. e.g. Riehemann 1994 and 1998, Booij 2007 and 2010a). Instead, it shows that produc...
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| Language: | English |
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Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti
2013-05-01
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| Series: | Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/BWPL_2013_1_Fortin.pdf |