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Anatomy of a Modal Construction
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Linguistic Inquiry (2007) 38 (3): 445–483.
Published: 01 July 2007
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Languages can express the existence of an easy way of achieving a goal in a construction we call the sufficiency modal construction (SMC), which combines a minimizing/exclusive operator like only or ne … que and a goal-oriented necessity modal like have to or need to , asin To get good cheese, you only have to go to the North End . We show that the morphosyntactic makeup of the SMC is crosslinguistically stable. We show that the semantics of the construction poses a severe compositionality problem. We solve the problem by giving the negation and the exclusive operator differential scope. For only , this means decomposing it into negation and an exclusive other than component.
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Epistemic Containment
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Linguistic Inquiry (2003) 34 (2): 173–198.
Published: 01 April 2003
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This article concerns a new constraint on the interaction of quantifier phrases and epistemic modals. It is argued that QPs cannot bind their traces across an epistemic modal, though it is shown that scoping mechanisms of a different nature are permitted to cross epistemic modals. The nature and source of this constraint are investigated.