On the interaction of aspect and modal auxiliaries

Linguistics and Philosophy

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 279-315

  Hacquard, Valentine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Actuality entailments; Aspect; Event; Modality

Indexed keywords

EID: 76149135112     PISSN: 01650157     EISSN: 15730549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10988-009-9061-6     Document Type: Article

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