Whatâs in a Rule? A Cross-Slavic Survey of Anankastic Modals

Marco Biasio

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ChapterÂ 3 Whatâs in a Rule? A Cross-Slavic Survey of Anankastic Modals

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In this chapter, a more fine-grained distinction within the domain of Slavic universal necessity modals is advocated for between âtrueâ deontics and anankastics, i.e., operators expressing ânon-epistemic,â participant-external, ânon-deonticâ necessity (van der Auwera and Plungian 1998). Although anankastic modals have been extensively treated in formal semantics approaches, which have mainly dealt with a set of conditional constructions apparently impervious to a compositional derivation, they have rarely been studied from a comparative perspective. On the basis of a mixed sample of corpus and questionnaire data from Russian, Serbo-Croatian, and Czech, a number of formal diagnostics designed to capture the distributional properties of anankastic modals are put to the test and aligned with the structural characteristics of Slavic modal systems.

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The Slavic Verb

Part 1: Comparative Perspectives

Series:Â Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics, Volume: 48

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004731615

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 02 Dec 2025

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- Slavic and Eurasian Studies
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