Modal polyfunctionality and German modals revisited
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Result on the web
<a href="https://kalbos.ktu.lt/index.php/KStud/article/view/35276" target="_blank" >https://kalbos.ktu.lt/index.php/KStud/article/view/35276</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.sal.1.44.35276" target="_blank" >10.5755/j01.sal.1.44.35276</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Modal polyfunctionality and German modals revisited
Original language description
This paper points out that there is presently no consistent definition of German modals, nor isthere any agreement as to which verbs should be categorized as modals. The paper suggeststhat modals should be defined based on modal polyfunctionality, i.e. the ability to expressboth root and epistemic readings. Applying this definition, the paper states that besides canonical dürfen ‘beallowed to’, können ‘can’, mögen ‘may’, müssen ‘must’, sollen ‘should’, wollen ‘want’, verbs werden ‘will’ andbrauchen ‘need’ are to be considered modals as well, since they semantically behave as standard modals.More specifically, they are both capable of expressing both root and epistemic modalities. Furthermore, the paperproposes that the absence of agreement in 1st and 3rd person singular in modals such as in ich/er mussØ ‘I/he must’ cannot be solely attributed to their preterite-present origin of modals, but is related to the synchronicdefinition of modals, i.e. their polyfunctionality as a result of paradigmatic coherence. In addition to exploringthe central modals, the paper investigates the paradigms of brauchen ‘need’, as well as werden ‘will’, suggestingthat they might be aligning with the central modals in terms of their agreement morphology as well. Sincebeing theoretical, the paper’s arguments are supported by the examples from the texts referenced in literatureor produced by native speakers of German.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Studies about Languages
ISSN
1648-2824
e-ISSN
2029-7203
Volume of the periodical
Neuveden
Issue of the periodical within the volume
44
Country of publishing house
LT - LITHUANIA
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
53-70
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85198273167