text_combined: sle 31 call papers sle 31 st andrews scotland 2630 august 1998 workshop modality generative grammar description analysis modality central interest study human language modality interacts many subsystems syntax better understanding modality would understanding subsystems greatly relevant subsystems play role existing analyses epistemicdeontic dichotomy attributed argument structure e g ross 1969 epistemic modals oneplace predicates corresponding raising verbs syntactically whereas deontic modals twoplace predicates corresponding control verbs syntactically ii insertion position epistemic modals generated deontic modals v e g picallo 1990 iii lf position epistemic modals c deontic modals vp e g mcdowell 1987 iv nature complement modal definite verbal complement epistemic modals indefinite verbal complement deontic modals e g barbiers 1995 v pragmatics dichotomy contextually determined correspond syntactic difference kratzer 1989 many questions still need answered sufficiently adequate analysis developed argument structure asked evidence modal two different argument structures evidence exists argument structures represented lexicon thetatheoretic accounts syntactically related questions concern categorial status modals special category aux english main verbs german dutch selectional restrictions impose complement semantically uniform syntactically verbal complements english categorial restrictions dutch verbal certain prepositional complements german afrikaans syntactic position surface structure lf need know scopal interaction modals negation clear tight connection modality negation affirmation many languages modal behaves negative polarity item english need german brauchen dutch hoeven related issue interaction modals focus particles especially negative affirmative import english french bien seems focus particles alter syntactic semantic behaviour modals scopal interaction modals quantifiers modals question operators also need better description analysis claimed question formation epistemic modality exclude although seem hold general question formation epistemic modality seem restrict ways poorly understood interaction modal verbs modal adverbials also relevant determination syntactic position modals particulary view cinque 1997 hypothesis every sentence contains two modal projections must either filled modal adverbial specifier modal verb head many languages construction involves modal interpretation constructions generally epistemic interpretation consider english never see dutch het te verwachten dat expected great many crosslinguistic peculiarities point worth exploring example one question type construction lacking visible modal element yields modal interpretation general question concerning modality properties modals necessary modality accidental cross linguistically modals often irregular present tense inflection paradigm unclear whether necessary property modals fact english modals auxilaries modals languages presumably accidental property fact english modals lack infinitives participles paradigm whereas dutch modals infinitival participial forms except verb zullen seems bulk generative studies modality involves germanic languages particularly invite papers modality romance central european languages organizers sjef barbiers leiden frits beukema leiden olga tomic novi sad milena milojevic sheppard ljubljana marija golden ljubljana please submit abstract 1 a4 max professor olga miseska tomic bulevar avnoja 109 iii stan 16 beograd yu 11070 yugoslavija e mail efilb01 yubgss21 bg ac yu dr sjef barbiers hil department dutch studies p n van eyckhof 3 leiden nl 2300 ra netherlands e mail barbiers rullet leidenuniv nl dr frits beukema hil department english p n van eyckhof 4 leiden nl 2300 ra netherlands e mail beukema rullet leidenuniv nl closing date submission abstract 15 may 1998 date acceptance rejection abstract 1 july 1998