Modal verbs and generative grammar
Verb concatenation or verb serialization is a widespread phenomenon in Southeast Asian languages (see Goral) and in other linguistic areas as well. In a previous study (Goral), I addressed the following problem: given that in various Southeast Asian languages there are commonly found strings of verb...
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description | Verb concatenation or verb serialization is a widespread phenomenon in Southeast Asian languages (see Goral) and in other linguistic areas as well. In a previous study (Goral), I addressed the following problem: given that in various Southeast Asian languages there are commonly found strings of verbs which are uninflected in the sense of European languages, what syntactic and semantic information is available to allow these strings to be interpreted by the layperson, or to be analyzed by the linguist? |
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spelling | ntu-10356/1791662024-07-23T06:32:01Z Modal verbs and generative grammar Goral, Donald R. Harbin Institute of Electrical Technology Arts and Humanities Verb concatenation or verb serialization is a widespread phenomenon in Southeast Asian languages (see Goral) and in other linguistic areas as well. In a previous study (Goral), I addressed the following problem: given that in various Southeast Asian languages there are commonly found strings of verbs which are uninflected in the sense of European languages, what syntactic and semantic information is available to allow these strings to be interpreted by the layperson, or to be analyzed by the linguist? Published version 2024-07-23T06:32:00Z 2024-07-23T06:32:00Z 1988 Journal Article Goral, D. R. (1988). Modal verbs and generative grammar. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 11(2), 7-24. https://dx.doi.org/10.32655/LTBA.11.2.02 0731-3500 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/179166 10.32655/LTBA.11.2.02 2 11 7 24 en Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area © 1988 The Editor(s). All rights reserved. application/pdf |
spellingShingle | Arts and Humanities Goral, Donald R. Modal verbs and generative grammar |
title | Modal verbs and generative grammar |
title_full | Modal verbs and generative grammar |
title_fullStr | Modal verbs and generative grammar |
title_full_unstemmed | Modal verbs and generative grammar |
title_short | Modal verbs and generative grammar |
title_sort | modal verbs and generative grammar |
topic | Arts and Humanities |
url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/179166 |
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