Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: In French as in other languages diffentiating the perfective and the imperfective morphologically, modal verbs sometimes behave like implicative verbs in perfective sentences. We present new data that previous accounts cannot explain. The offered analysis relies on a distinction between classical abilities and what we call action dependent abilities.
DOI: 10.53437/wfpyc410
Authors: Alda Mari, Fabienne Martin
Institutions: Institut Jean Nicod, University of Stuttgart
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Funder: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Award: G3344510221
OpenAlex ID: W91693138