Sequence, gaze, and modal semantics: modal verb selection in German permission inquiries
Two modal verbs of German are regularly used to express deontic possibility: können (‘can’) and dürfen (‘may’). We examine how speakers select between them, focusing on modal inquiries for permission to carry out some action (darf/kann ich das machen, ‘may/can I do this’). Our data are video-recordi...
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De Gruyter
2025-01-01
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| Series: | Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2023-0017 |
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