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The notion of modality KU Leuven
A typology of complement insubordination in Dutch KU Leuven
This paper presents an analysis of complement insubordination in Dutch, i.e structures that are formally marked as subordinate complement clauses but conventionally used as main clauses. We develop a typology of seven distinct construction types (in three semantic domains), none of which have been analysed in detail before. From a more general perspective, we show that insubordinate constructions provide a fresh perspective on the analysis of ...
Modal adjectives: English deontic and evaluative constructions in diachrony and synchrony KU Leuven
This book revisits the notion of deontic modality from the perspective of an understudied category in the modal domain, viz. adjectives. On the basis of synchronic and diachronic corpus studies, it analyses the semantics of English adjectives like essential and appropriate, and uses this to refine traditional definitions of deontic modality, which are mainly based on the study of modal verbs. In a first step, it is shown that the set of meanings ...