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This collection of seven papers studies important aspects of the
syntax of Albanian, Bulgarian, Greek, and Rumanian from a
comparative perspective based on current linguistic frameworks,
including the Minimalist Program. Topics addressed include control,
raising, and obviation, negation, noun phrase structure, clitic
pronouns, and verb movement.
This volume explores the linguistic expression of modality in
natural language from a cross-linguistic perspective. Modal
expressions provide the basic tools that allow us to dissociate
what we say from what is actually going on, allowing us to talk
about what might happen or might have happened, as well as what is
required, desirable, or permitted. Chapters in the book demonstrate
that modality involves many more syntactic categories and levels of
syntactic structure than traditionally assumed. The volume
distinguishes between three types of modality: 'low modality',
which concerns modal interpretations associated with the verbal and
nominal cartographies in syntax; 'middle modality', or modal
interpretation associated with the syntactic cartography internal
to the clause; and 'high modality', relating to the left periphery.
It combines cross-linguistic discussions of the more widely studied
sources of modality with analyses of novel or unexpected sources,
and shows how the meanings associated with the three types of
modality are realized across a wide range of languages.
This collection of seven papers studies important aspects of the syntax of Albanian, Bulgarian, Greek, and Romanian from a comparative perspective based on current linguistic frameworks, including the Minimalist Program. Topics addressed include control, raising, and obviation, negation, noun phrase structure, clitic pronouns, and verb movement.
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