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The nature and origins of counterfactuality in simple clauses: Cross-linguistic evidence
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Revisiting deontic modality and related categories: A conceptual map based on the study of English m
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Modal Adjectives: English Deontic and Evaluative Constructions in Diachrony and Synchrony
The book revisits the notion of deontic modality from the perspective of an understudied category in the modal domain, viz. adjectives. It analyses extraposition constructions with English adjectives…
A typology of complement insubordination in Dutch
This paper presents an analysis of complement insubordination in Dutch, i.e. structures that are formally marked as subordinate complement clauses but conventionally used as main clauses. We develop…
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Irregular perspective shifts and perspective persistence
Irregular perspective shifts and perspective persistence, discourse-oriented and theoretical approaches : Special Issue
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The development of the modal and discourse marker uses of (there/it is / I have) no doubt
In this paper, we reconstruct the emergence of the modal and discourse marker uses of adverbial and clausal expressions with no doubt. Their history contrasts in a number of surprising ways with…
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(Semi-)autonomous subordination in Dutch: Structures and semantic-pragmatic values
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Deictification: the development of secondary deictic meanings by adjectives in the English NP1
In this article we make a case for recognizing deictification as a type of grammaticalization and semantic shift in the NP analogous to auxiliarization in the VP. The specific analogy we point out is…
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Dynamic, deontic and evaluative adjectives and their clausal complement patterns: A synchronic-diachronic account
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Extraposition constructions in the deontic domain: state-of-affairs (SoA)-related versus speaker-related uses
This study examines how extraposition constructions with adjectives, such as it is important to honour those who have done honour to us (CB) function in the deontic and directive domain. It is found…
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