TY - JOUR
T1 - Mental Representations in Developing Modals
T2 - A Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Review
AU - Tanaka, Toshiya
PY - 1993/1/1
Y1 - 1993/1/1
N2 - The aim of this chapter is to point out that there is a cross-linguistic regularity in the pattern according to which modals develop out or non-modal verbs, and to elucidate the inner or mental process of these developments. Three types of modals are taken into consideration. Two are related to “possibility”. The other is related to “necessity”. The fact that verbs from several different languages, etymologically unrelated but put in similar uses, show the same pattern or developments leads us to conjecture that there is a common psycholinguistic process in the human mind beyond language and culture. The type of mental process which is concerned with these developments is specified in terms of some abstract semantic representation.
AB - The aim of this chapter is to point out that there is a cross-linguistic regularity in the pattern according to which modals develop out or non-modal verbs, and to elucidate the inner or mental process of these developments. Three types of modals are taken into consideration. Two are related to “possibility”. The other is related to “necessity”. The fact that verbs from several different languages, etymologically unrelated but put in similar uses, show the same pattern or developments leads us to conjecture that there is a common psycholinguistic process in the human mind beyond language and culture. The type of mental process which is concerned with these developments is specified in terms of some abstract semantic representation.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0166-4115(08)61658-1
DO - 10.1016/S0166-4115(08)61658-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77956717925
SN - 0166-4115
VL - 103
SP - 77
EP - 94
JO - Advances in Psychology
JF - Advances in Psychology
IS - C
ER -