Article published In: Modal Verbs in Germanic and Romance Languages
Edited by Johan van der Auwera and Patrick Dendale
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics 14] 2000
► pp. 185–205
On the Modality of the English Verbs of Seeming
Published online: 21 January 2011
https://doi.org/10.1075/bjl.14.11uso
https://doi.org/10.1075/bjl.14.11uso
Abstract. This paper concerns the syntax-semantics interface in the analysis of two complementation types of the English verbs of seeming, namely structures containing phrases with the copula to be and those with zero copula (look/seem/appear to bePvs. 0 P). The aim of this study is to see what kind of modal meaning can be attributed to the verbs under investigation and how the observed meanings are dependent upon the complement type.
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Lampert, Günther
2020.
How and why seem became an evidential. In Re-assessing Modalising Expressions [Studies in Language Companion Series, 216], ► pp. 109 ff.
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