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| Introduction | |
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| Norwegian modals: main verbs and auxiliaries | |
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| The central subjects of this investigation | |
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| The root-epistemic distinction | |
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| The framework | |
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| The data | |
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| Norwegian Modals: the Facts | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Morphological characteristics | |
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| Semantic characteristics | |
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| A brief overview of some central modality terms | |
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| Two seminal formal semantic descriptions of modals | |
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| A semantic field of modality | |
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| The semantic properties of Norwegain modals | |
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| Modals, readings and n-place relations | |
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| Syntactic characteristics | |
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| Complements of Norwegian modals | |
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| Modals, ellipsis, and tags | |
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| Summary of findings | |
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| Summary and preliminary inventory | |
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| Examining our results | |
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| Three potential candidates | |
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| Final inventory and inventories of seven other languages | |
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| Norwegian modals: final inventory | |
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| Inventories of modals in seven other languages | |
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| Analyzing Modals: a Survey of Recent Proposals | |
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| Two central notions | |
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| Theta-roles | |
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| Functional projections | |
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| Some earlier proposals | |
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| Roberts (1985) | |
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| Roberts (1993) | |
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| Roberts and Roussou (2002, 2003) | |
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| Cinque (1999) | |
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| Vikner (1988) | |
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| Thrainsson and Vikner (1995) | |
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| Barbiers (1995, 2002) | |
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| Lodrup (1996a) | |
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| Dyvik (1999) | |
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| Wurmbrand (1999, 2001) | |
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| Butler (2003) | |
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| van Gelderen (2003, 2004) | |
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| Picallo (1990) | |
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| Modals and theta-roles | |
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| Insertion or merger point of root and non-root modals | |
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| Norwegian Modals: Argument Structure | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The control versus raising analysis | |
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| Modals in pseudoclefts | |
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| The relevant generalization: [plus or minus] proposition scope | |
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| The pseudocleft construction | |
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| Modals and subject scope | |
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| Competing for subject positions: Theta relations vs. subject scope | |
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| The argument from nobody/somebody | |
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| The argument from some/every | |
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| The argument from the ambiguity of indefinites | |
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| Subject-orientedness and subject positions | |
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| Reanalysis verbs | |
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| Raising verbs and pseudoclefts | |
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| The Case solution | |
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| The "op" solution | |
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| The ungoverned trace | |
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| Access to subject positions | |
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| Controllability | |
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| [plus or minus] Theta-role | |
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| Explaining subject-orientedness | |
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| It is not a real Theta-role | |
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| Occational redefinition of argument structure | |
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| Double entries | |
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| Optional Theta-assignment | |
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| Hornstein (1998, 1999, 2000) | |
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| Optional versus obligatory Theta-assigners | |
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| Evaluating the alternatives | |
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| The source of modality: Two semantic levels | |
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| Summary | |
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| Norwegian Modals, Aspect and Tense | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Tense and aspect | |
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| Tense | |
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| Aspect | |
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| Aspect and tense of complements | |
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| Directional small clauses | |
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| The perfect | |
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| The progressive | |
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| The iterative | |
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| Modality, tense, and aspect: Scope, readings, and universality | |
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| Creole TMA systems and universalist hypotheses | |
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| A digression on mood and modality | |
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| TMA markers in Norwegian | |
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| Modal-aspectual sequences in other languages | |
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| Universalist approaches and the modal-tense-aspectual data | |
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| Modals and the perfect | |
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| Modals and tense | |
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| The positions of modals | |
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| A compositional tense system for Norwegian | |
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| Julien (2000a, 2001) | |
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| A different approach | |
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| Tense chains and temporal relations | |
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| The preterite | |
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| The present | |
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| The infinitive | |
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| The past participle and the perfect | |
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| The function of ha 'have' | |
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| The properties of the complement: tense and aspect | |
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| Default and override | |
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| Truth values and tenses, verbs and directionals | |
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| The tense properties of root and non-root modals | |
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| The tense of root modals | |
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| The tense of non-root modals | |
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| Non-root modals and finiteness | |
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| Non-root modals for the past and future | |
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| Sequence of tenses, non-root modals, and generics | |
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| Summing up | |
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| Summing up | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The facts | |
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| Earlier proposals | |
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| Argument structure | |
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| Modals, aspect, and tense | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |