A modal ambiguity in for-infinitival relative clauses
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A modal ambiguity in for-infinitival relative clauses
This squib presents two puzzles related to an ambiguity found in For-infinitival relative clauses (FIRs). FIR’s always receive a modal interpretation even in the absence of any overt modal verb, and the modal interpretation seems to come in two distinct types, which can be paraphrased by finite relative clauses employing, respectively, the modal auxiliaries should and could. The two puzzles pre...
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عنوان ژورنال: Natural Language Semantics
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0925-854X,1572-865X
DOI: 10.1007/s11050-011-9075-9