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The French construction ‘j’arrive à + INF’ at the borders of modality. An exploratory survey of a journalistic corpus
Maison d'édition
Alessandria: Dell'Orso
Date de parution
2023
In
Ubi homo, ibi lingua. Studi in onore di Maria Patrizia Bologna
De la page
449
A la page
466
Résumé
The French construction j’arrive à + INF seems to allow readings very close to possibility modality. After a brief diachronic and typological description, I carry out an investigation of a journalistic corpus in order to better understand its contemporary uses. Subsequently, after having shown that it has implicative semantics, I claim that the construction is irreducible to modality, as it lacks the property of introducing non-factual states of affairs.
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book part
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