Jonny Butler

List of John Benjamins publications in which Jonny Butler is involved.

Article

Butler, Jonny 2006 The Structure of Temporality and Modality: (or, Towards deriving something like a Cinque Hierarchy) Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2006, Pica, Pierre (ed.), pp. 161–201 | Article

This paper offers a view of clause structure based on semantic interpretability, focusing on the structure and interpretation of temporal (tense, aspect) and modal elements. It proposes that modality has a unitary lexical semantics along the lines of Krater (1977 et seq), with different… read more