Christelle Lacassain
List of John Benjamins publications in which Christelle Lacassain is
involved.
Title
Possibility and Necessity: Concepts and expressions of modality
Edited by Jean Albrespit, Christelle Lacassain and Tracey Simpson
Researchers in the fields of logic, philosophy and linguistics have for many years been pondering over the elusive nature of modality and grappled with ways of capturing it. This book provides a broad overview of issues relevant to the study of modality and reflects the diversity of theoretical… read moreArticles
Albrespit, Jean, Christelle Lacassain and Tracey Simpson 2025
Introduction: Possibility and necessity. Concepts and expressions of modality Possibility and Necessity: Concepts and expressions of modality, Albrespit, Jean, Christelle Lacassain and Tracey Simpson (eds.), pp. 1–9 | Chapter This paper focuses on the use of English copular perception verbs, or CPVs (look, sound, taste, smell and feel), which the two concepts of evidentiality and epistemicity help to shed light on. It reviews different positions concerning CPVs and their semantics regarding evidentiality and… read more Perception verbs prototypically occur with a grammatical subject NP referring to a person. However, see and witness also license an inanimate grammatical subject, more precisely a spatial or temporal setting, in a “setting-subject construction” (Langacker 1991, 2008). The present study addresses… read more 
