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Old English modal verbs: A syntactical study. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1989.

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Wakileh, Aida Abdullah. Modal auxiliary verbs and English-Arabic translation. Salford: Univerity of Salford, 1986.

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Mohr, R. W. A. Modal verbs: A case grammar analysis. New York: Peter Lang, 2004.

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McCallum-Bayliss, Heather. The modal verbs: Univocal lexical items. Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics Club, 1988.

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McCallum-Bayliss, Heather. The modal verbs: Univocal lexical items. Bloomington, Ind: Reproduced by the Indiana University Linguistics Club, 1988.

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Merino, José. English modal verbs with exercises =: Los verbos defectivos ingleses y sus ejercicios. 6th ed. Madrid: Anglo Didáctica, 2001.

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Nykiel, Jerzy. Expressing obligation in Old English: Constructions with pre-modal and lexical verbs. Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, 2010.

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Westney, Paul. Modals and periphrastics in English: An investigation into the semantic correspondence between certain English modal verbs and their periphrastic equivalents. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1995.

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Rosset, Eduardo. Mastering the irregular verbs and modals. [Irun, Espan a]: Stanley, 1999.

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Modality and the English modals. 2nd ed. London: Longman, 1990.

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English ditransitive verbs: Aspects of theory, description and a usage-based model. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004.

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Facchinetti, Roberta. La modalità verbale nell'argomentazione di Keynes: Analisi dell'uso dei verbi modali. Milano: Guerini, 1992.

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Jewett, William. Fatal autonomy: Romantic drama and the rhetoric of agency. Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press, 1997.

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Smutek, Leszek, and Anna Stefanowicz-Kocol. English Grammar in Use - Practice Exercises: Modal Verbs. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012.

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Coates, Jennifer. Semantics of the Modal Auxiliaries. Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

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Semantics of the Modal Auxiliaries. Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.

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Verbos Defectivos Ingleses Y Sus Ejercicios/ English Modal Verbs: Los Verbos Defectivos Ingleses y Sus Ejercicios / The Deffective English Verbs and Their Exercises (Grammar & Reference Practice). 6th ed. Anglo-Didacto, 2001.

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Yanovich, Igor. May under verbs of hoping: Evolution of the modal system in the complements of hoping verbs in Early Modern English. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198718208.003.0008.

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The chapter traces two stages of the rise of the may-under-hope construction of Late Modern English, present in examples like (i) Dearest, I hope we may be on such terms twenty years hence. Despite the archaic feel to it, this construction is in fact a very recent innovation that arose not earlier than the sixteenth century. I conjecture that its elevated flavor does not stem from its old age, but rather was inherited from another construction, with the inflectional subjunctive under hope. Along the way, I also present evidence that the textual absence of may under verbs of hoping before the rise of this construction was not due to narrow compositional semantics.

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Modal Verbs: A Case Grammar Analysis (Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics, V. 30). Peter Lang Publishing, 2006.

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Axel-Tober, Katrin, and Remus Gergel. Modality and Mood in Formal Syntactic Approaches. Edited by Jan Nuyts and Johan Van Der Auwera. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199591435.013.21.

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The chapter discusses a selection of major approaches to modality and mood in generative syntax. The primary focus lies on the representation of modal auxiliaries and verbs. Key issues relating to modal adverbs and a selection of aspects pertaining to mood are reviewed. Central points addressed are the structural options for different types of modality including the raising vs control debate and the possible structural correlates of epistemic modality addressed in the literature. The chapter incorporates a discussion of “coherent constructions” following a tradition established for German modals. The latter serves as an illustration of a different type of possible syntactic analysis and, in virtue of its data coverage, also of points of variation even between closely related languages like English and German.

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Ziegeler, Debra. The Diachrony of Modality and Mood. Edited by Jan Nuyts and Johan Van Der Auwera. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199591435.013.18.

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This chapter surveys recent work on the diachrony of modality, mood, and subjectivity. It first considers the research over the past thirty years into the development of modal forms and meanings—which is largely dominated by the study of English, and more broadly the Germanic languages, in the context of grammaticalization theory. It focuses on the nature of the source constructions for modal forms, on the emergence of epistemic functions from deontic or root modality, and on the role of syntactic development for the emergence of modal meanings. The chapter then discusses work on the diachronic development of mood, focusing on indicative/subjunctive inflection and (ir)realis coding in languages with little written history. It finally looks into diachronic studies and the role of subjectivity and subjectification in meaning changes in the class of modal verbs in languages.

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Fonteyn, Lauren. Categoriality in Language Change. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190917579.001.0001.

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This study presents the first elaborate attempt to set out a functional-semantic definition of diachronic transcategorial shift between the major classes “noun”/“nominal” and “verb”/“clause.” In English, speakers have different options to refer to an event by using “deverbal nominalization” strategies (e.g., Him guessing her size/His guessing of her size (was incredibly lucky)). Interestingly, not only do these strategies each resemble “prototypical” nominals to varying extents, it also has been observed that some of these strategies increasingly resemble clauses and decreasingly resemble prototypical nominals over time, as if they are gradually shifting categories. Thus far, the literature on such cases of diachronic categorial shift has mainly described the processes by focusing on form, leaving the reader with a clear picture of what and how changes have occurred. Yet, the question of why these formal changes have occurred is still shrouded in mystery. This study tackles this mystery by showing that the diachronic processes of nominalization and verbalization can also involve functional-semantic changes. The aim of this study is both theoretical and descriptive. The theoretical aim is to present a model that allows one to study diachronic nominalization and verbalization as not just formal or morpho-syntactic but also functional-semantic processes. The descriptive aim is to offer “workable” definitions of the abstract functional-semantic properties of nominals and verbs/clauses, and subsequently apply them to one of the most intriguing deverbal nominalization systems in the history of English: the English gerund.

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Salvesen, Christine Meklenborg, and George Walkden. Diagnosing embedded V2 in Old English and Old French. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198747840.003.0011.

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Old English (OE) and Old French (OF) both display verb-second (V2) word order in main declarative clauses. Different models may account for V2: (a) the finite verb must move to a head in the CP field; (b) it must remain in the IP field; or (c) it moves to the left periphery only when the preceding XP is not a subject. While the IP-model should allow free embedded V2, the two others would either exclude completely or strongly limit the possibilty of having embedded V2. We select embedded that-clauses and analyse the word order with respect to the matrix verb: embedded V2 is possible in both OE and OF, although the availability of this structure is restricted. OE has very few occurrences of embedded V2, whereas OF seems to permit this construction more freely. We link this difference to the site of first Merge of complementizers in the two languages.

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Mukherjee, Joybrato. English Ditransitive Verbs: Aspects of Theory, Description and a Usage-Based Model (Language and Computers 53) (Language & Computers). Rodopi, 2005.

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Hu, Xuhui. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808466.003.0001.

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This chapter firstly introduces the broad theoretical background within which the research carried out in this book is situated. The theoretical aim of this book is to develop a theory of the syntax of events, which is based on the constructivist approach, in particular Borer’s (2005a,b, 2013) Exo-Skeletal (XS) model—part of the broader framework of generative grammar. The empirical scope of this book includes Chinese and English resultatives, applicative constructions, non-canonical object constructions and motion event constructions in Chinese, and the satellite/verb-framed typology. Both synchronic variation and diachronic change are studied. The organization of this book is also outlined.

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