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Syntax of Dutch: Verbs and Verb Phrases. Volume 2

“…This implies that the dividing line between these two sets will be slightly different than normally assumed in more traditional grammars. For example, whereas modal verbs are normally considered non-main verbs, we are bound to conclude that they are main verbs; see Klooster (1984Klooster ( /1986. For completeness' sake, we conclude by noting that the pronominalization test must be applied with care; not all structures containing the pronoun dat/het can be used to show that the verb under investigation is predicational in nature.…”

“…Subsection II therefore reviews the reasons for assuming that these modal verbs take bare infinitival complement clauses, and will also discuss whether these modal verbs can be complemented by BARE-INF nominalizations. Subsection III continues by providing a discussion of a number of semantic and syntactic properties of the modal verbs under discussion, which adopts as its point of departure the semantic classification of modality provided by Palmer (2001), with one non-trivial addition based on observations found in Klooster (1986) and Barbiers (1995).…”

“…In both these cases the moving force is directed towards the subject of the sentence. Klooster (1986) and Barbiers (1995) have shown, however, that there is a second type of deontic modality in which the moving force is not directed towards the subject at all; in order to distinguish these two types of deontic modality we will make a distinction between directed and nondirected deontic modality, where (NON-)DIRECTED should be interpreted as "(not) directed towards the subject of the sentence". We thus distinguish the three types of event modality illustrated in (640), which will be discussed in some more detail in the following subsections.…”

“…And, why is it that the subject of the infinitival clause is realized as PRO when the modal verb moeten is deontic but not when it is epistemic; cf. Klooster (1986)?…”

“…In order to account for the fact that the nominative subject of the construction as a whole is also construed as the subject of the infinitival clause, Klooster (1986) proposed a °control analysis of constructions of this type: the external argument of the modal verb functions as the controller of the implied subject °PRO of the embedded infinitival clause. This is schematically represented in (643) Jan wants that book read…”