Modal verbs and the feature of (non-)agentivity: a case study on the use of the Czech modal verb muset ‘must, have to’

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Modal verbs and the feature of (non-)agentivity: a case study on the use of the Czech modal verb muset ‘must, have to’

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The paper presents a case study the purpose of which is to examine the assumption that in syntactical constructions with modal verbs, non-agentivity of the lexical verb might only allow the epistemic use of the modal (i.e. disallow the root interpretation), as was suggested by various researches. The case study is corpus-based; fifteen datasets including occurrences of the Czech modal muset ‘must, have to’ and various lexical verbs, five agentive and ten non-agentive ones, were manually annotated in terms of modality types. A total of four different modal meanings were distinguished: 1. deontic/bouletic modality, 2. the meaning of necessary condition, 3. the meaning of necessary consequence, 4. epistemic modality (with types 1 to 3 being subtypes of root modality). The results indicate that non-agentivity of the lexical verb does not generally prevent root interpretation of the modal but significantly impedes deontic/bouletic interpretation (without, however, making it impossible) which results in lower share of occurrences displaying root modality, compared to constructions with agentive lexical verbs. The research also highlighted the proximity of various modal senses, which often makes them hard to distinguish.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Modal verbs and the feature of (non-)agentivity: a case study on the use of the Czech modal verb muset ‘must, have to’

Popis výsledku anglicky

The paper presents a case study the purpose of which is to examine the assumption that in syntactical constructions with modal verbs, non-agentivity of the lexical verb might only allow the epistemic use of the modal (i.e. disallow the root interpretation), as was suggested by various researches. The case study is corpus-based; fifteen datasets including occurrences of the Czech modal muset ‘must, have to’ and various lexical verbs, five agentive and ten non-agentive ones, were manually annotated in terms of modality types. A total of four different modal meanings were distinguished: 1. deontic/bouletic modality, 2. the meaning of necessary condition, 3. the meaning of necessary consequence, 4. epistemic modality (with types 1 to 3 being subtypes of root modality). The results indicate that non-agentivity of the lexical verb does not generally prevent root interpretation of the modal but significantly impedes deontic/bouletic interpretation (without, however, making it impossible) which results in lower share of occurrences displaying root modality, compared to constructions with agentive lexical verbs. The research also highlighted the proximity of various modal senses, which often makes them hard to distinguish.

Druh

J_ost - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Jazykovědné aktuality

ISSN

1212-5326

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Svazek periodika

60

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

červen

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

22

Strana od-do

189-210

Kód UT WoS článku

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