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  • 12 - Covert Patterns of Modality

  • from IV - Covert Modality
  • Werner Abraham, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
  • Book:
    Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics
    Published online:
    06 February 2021
    Print publication:
    17 September 2020, pp 333-380

  • Summary

    Be/have+v trigger covert modality in root (but not epistemic) terms: necessity and probability. They do this in several distributional forms the main being subject relative infinitives and object relative infinitives. In addition. Gerundial forms as substitutes for the infinitive enter the modal construction in german. As epistemic readings of xp is to v and xp has to v are excluded, the nonfinite epis-temic gap hypothesis is taken up again and brought (again) to a conclusion: the non-finite status of complements does not lend itself for epistemic readings.