How to Say Ought in Foreign: The Composition of Weak Necessity Modals

Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

Volumn 75, Issue , 2008, Pages 115-141

  von Fintel, Kai ^a   Iatridou, Sabine ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

counterfactuals; deontic; epistemic; goal oriented; Modals; ordering source; wishes

Indexed keywords

EID: 85102001878     PISSN: 09244670     EISSN: 22150358     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8354-9_6     Document Type: Chapter

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