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Modalitäten im Sprachkontrast: Nochmals zu der Aspektualität-Modalität-Schnittstelle

Michail L. Kotin

Zielona Góra, Poznań

Modalities in language contrast: Again on the aspectuality-modality interface. – The paper deals with selected questions of the interaction between grammatical categories of the verb. It focuses especially on encoding the aspect function by deontic and epistemic readings of the modal auxiliaries and, on the other hand, on encoding the modal function by the verbal aspect. Moreover, categorial connections between the “Aktionsart”-function of the verb, its tense form, and its modality properties are discussed. On the base of the realized analyses one can conclude that there are diverse cross-connections between the grammatical categories and categorial functions in question, so that languages without aspect can encode aspectual readings through modality and vice versa, languages with aspect can imply modal readings by help of aspect forms.

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