Mood and modality in finite noun complement clauses: a French-English contrastive study
Mood and modality in finite noun complement clauses: a French-English contrastive study
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有限名词补语从句中的语气和情态:法语-英语对比研究
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2012
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Issa Kanté
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Issa Kanté
The present paper presents a corpus-based contrastive analysis of modality in English and French finite noun complement clauses. On the one hand, we claim on the basis of cross-linguistic and semantic evidence that modality is a common intrinsic feature of nouns that license that/que complement clauses, and, as a consequence, that head nouns are modal stance markers. On the other hand, this paper shows that indicative-subjunctive alternation in that/que noun complement clauses is determined by the modality type of the governing noun. Contrastive analysis of French and English provides evidence to substantiate these claims.