When must not is not forbidden

Szymański, Leszek

When must not is not forbidden

dc.contributor.author	Szymański, Leszek
dc.date.accessioned	2024-05-14T11:14:40Z
dc.date.available	2024-05-14T11:14:40Z
dc.date.issued	2023
dc.description.abstract	The present paper describes an empirical investigation into an English modal predicate with the auxiliary verb must, the negative particle not and the bare infinitive of the main verb. Typically, the negator not changes the meaning of must from obligation or strong recommendation to forbiddance. This, however, takes place only with the root flavor of must. Epistemic must does not interact with not in this way. The study uses authentic language samples retrieved from the online version of The Corpus of Contemporary American English. The analysis adapts the model of the semantic field of modal expressions developed by Kratzer (1991), and it attempts to find what lies behind the said lack of interaction between must and not. After a scrutiny of the conversational backgrounds influencing the studied modal meanings, the study found that the meaning expressed by a speaker with must not depends on whether the speaker evaluates the propositional circumstances directly or infers from them. Moreover, the study proposes patterns of must-not interfaces with regard to the modal flavor.
dc.identifier.citation	"Linguistics Beyond and Within", 2023, Vol. 9, pp. 197-207
dc.identifier.doi	10.31743/lingbaw.17024
dc.identifier.issn	2450-5188
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/6946
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	KUL Publishing House
dc.rights	Attribution 4.0 International	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject	modality
dc.subject	modality-negation interfaces
dc.subject	semantic field of modality
dc.subject	conversational backgrounds
dc.subject	possible worlds
dc.title	When must not is not forbidden
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article