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Quasi-modals*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Paul G. Chapin
Paul G. Chapin
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Department of Linguistics, University of California, San Diego
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In a lengthy footnote to his article ‘Pronominalization, negation, and the analysis of adverbs’ (1970) George Lakoff makes the following interesting observation:

All known selectional restrictions on the occurrence of lexical items are finite in scope. Usually they apply in the same sentence (subject–verb and verb–object selections) and sometimes one sentence away (verb–verb selections; i.e.force requires an activity verb in its complement) (160).

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , March 1973 , pp. 1 - 9
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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