A compositional analysis is provided of temporal perspective and orientation (Condoravdi
2002) of modals in Dutch, English, Gitksan (Tsimshianic), and St'át'imcets (Lillooet Salish) …

The dissertation is devoted to the formal mechanisms that govern the use of evidentials,
expressions of natural language that denote the source of information for the proposition …

This paper investigates how children figure out that modals like must can be used to express
both epistemic and “root”(ie non epistemic) flavors. The existing acquisition literature shows …

This paper revisits the longstanding observation that children produce modal verbs (eg,
must, could) with their root meanings (eg, abilities, obligations) by age 2, typically a year or …

Acquisition is an intuitive place to look for explanation in language change. Each child must
learn their individual grammar (s) via the indirect process of analyzing the output of others' …

Debate persists over whether Mandarin Chinese sentences exhibit a syntactically
represented albeit phonologically null Tense projection. In a recent paper, Lin (Syntax 18 …

Does language development drive language change? A common account of language
change attributes the regularity of certain patterns to children's learning biases. The present …

In this study, we address the mapping problem for modal words: how do children learn the
form‐to‐meaning mappings for words like could or have to in their input languages …

This thesis explores the proposed causal link between child language development and
language change from the language acquisition perspective. While theorists have argued …

In many languages, the same modal word can be used to express vari ous ffavors of
modality (Bybee et al. 1994; Palmer 2001; among others). 1 En glish must, for instance, can …