Modal Verbs Must Be Raising Verbs

By S. Wurmbrand. 2000

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• On the event relativity of modal auxiliaries (2010, background): “Bhatt 1998; Hackl 1998; Wurmbrand 1999 ): an ability modal allows for ‘weather-it’ subjects, as in (21a), and does not necessarily ascribe an ability to its subject, but to some other argument (the pool, rather than a lot of people, in (21b)).”