Book Sections Year : 2009

Acquisitive modals

Morphèmes modaux (obtenir, acquérir)

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The paper explores the fact that ‘get’ etymons may acquire modal meanings. It tries to fit this fact into the modal map proposal of van der Auwera & Plungian (1998) and concludes that the map has to be revised, in part because the lexical input, the predicates meaning ‘get/acquire’ allow more than one reading, an agentive and a receptive one. The paper focuses on the two areas in which so-called ‘acquisitiv modality’ is very prominent, viz. Northern Europe and South(east) Asia.

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hal-01546670 , version 1 (02-01-2024)

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Johan van Der Auwera, Peter Kehayov, Alice Vittrant. Acquisitive modals. Lotte Hogeweg; Helen de Hoop; Andrej L. Malchukov. Cross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect, and Modality, 148, John Benjamins, pp.271-302, 2009, Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 9789027255310. ⟨10.1075/la.148.11auw⟩. ⟨hal-01546670⟩
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