A deontic possibility modal in Latvian: Personal vs. impersonal uses in a corpus
A corpus-based study of a dedicated deontic possibility modal in Latvian focuses on its impersonal variety with a non-canonical subject in the dative. Normally, drīkstēt ‘may’ and other possibility modals have nominative subjects, while dative subjects are found with expressions of necessity. As dis...
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Vilnius University Press
2021-07-01
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| Series: | Vilnius University Open Series |
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| Online Access: | https://www.journals.vu.lt/open-series/article/view/24487 |