THE ROLE OF THE HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PRECEDENTIAL MODAL VERB ‘KÖNNEN’

Author’s name:

Olga Egorova

Abstract:

The article examines the development of grammar meanings of German modal verbs and, specifically, the verb können, pointing out its polysemy at different stages of the development of the language. The author then looks at the role of syntactic relations, which allow the modal verb können to become an object of grammatikalization or, in other words, a grammar precedential unit.

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Key words modal verb, (non)deictic way of use, grammatikalization, polysemy, paradigm, dispositional modality.

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