Open AccessOn the actuality entailment of Spanish root modals
Author(s) -
Angeles Carrasco
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
borealis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1893-3211
DOI - 10.7557/1.8.2.4842
Subject(s) - predicate (mathematical logic) , modal verb , linguistics , root (linguistics) , scope (computer science) , modal , phenomenon , mathematics , event (particle physics) , philosophy , computer science , verb , epistemology , physics , chemistry , quantum mechanics , polymer chemistry , programming language
This paper examines the actuality entailments of Spanish past perfective root modals. I wil sidewith those authors that maintain that the phenomenon is syntactic. Nevertheless, the emphasis will not beon scope differences between projections, but on the fact that the root modal periphrasis is an example ofrestructuring structure. More precisely, I will claim that root modal periphrases may be included amongthe constructions with a low level of restructuring. This point of view will take me to propose that theseperiphrastic structures give rise to a complex event which behaves as a non-homogeneous predicate withregard to temporal-aspectual meaning.