Publications

Publication details [#52981]

Nuyts, Jan, Pieter Byloo and Janneke Diepeveen. 2010. On deontic modality, directivity, and mood: The case of Dutch mogen and moeten. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (1) : 16–34.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

deontic modality | directive | imperative1 | mood | necessity

Language as a subject

Dutch

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study aims at a better comprehension of the essence of deontic modality, and of its relationship with the imperative mood, via a corpus-based analysis of the Dutch modal verbs 'mogen' (English: may) and 'moeten' (English: must).