The structure of a functional category: German drohen

In many languages, there are words that behave like lexical verbs on the one hand and like functional categories expressing distinctions of tense, aspect, modality, etc. on the other. The grammatical status of such words is frequently controversial. While some authors treat them as belonging to one...

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Main Authors: Bernd Heine, Hiroyuki Miyashita
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Française de Linguistique Cognitive 2009-03-01
Series:CogniTextes
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cognitextes/117