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ROA 1010-0109

On the interaction of tense, aspect and modality in Dutch

Richard van Gerrevink <richardvangerrevink at student.ru.nl>
Helen de Hoop <H.deHoop at let.ru.nl>

Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?roa=1010


Abstract:
>From a pragma-semantic perspective, the effect of the Dutch
modal verb 'moeten' 'must' on the proposition is closely
examined in various tenses. This results in a striking pattern
of actuality entailment. Present perfect tense (Ik heb dat
moeten betalen 'I have had to pay that') and perfect past
tense (Ik had dat moeten betalen 'I should have paid that')
combined with 'moeten' result in a positive and a negative
actuality entailment respectively. We explain how these
forms and their meanings are produced and interpreted correctly
with the help of bidirectional Optimaity Theory.

Comments: 
Keywords: bidirectional optimality theory, tense, aspect, modality, semantics, pragmatics
Areas: Semantics
Type: Book

Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?roa=1010