Epistemic mustn’t in English

Autor: Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla
Jazyk: German<br />English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />French<br />Italian
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, Vol 36 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1576-4737
Popis: It is a widespread claim in the literature that there does not exist an epistemic use of the modal verb mustn’t in English. Instead, the form can’t is said to fill the gap in the system. This paper shows that there is an epistemic use of mustn’t in Present-day English, investigates the contexts in which it appears and compares the use of epistemic can’t and mustn’t.
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