The Status of English Modals Prior to Their Recategorization as T and the Trigger for Their Recategorization
This is an account of English modals that invokes their exceptional morpho-syntactic tense properties as original preterite-present verbs in order to explain their becoming T elements. Within the framework of minimalist theory, I argue that modal verbs in OE and ME (up to approx. 1470) have an excep...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Institute of English Studies
2022-09-01
|
| Series: | Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies |
| Subjects: | |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|