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Linglib.Fragments.English.FunctionWords

  • form : String
  • passiveAgent : Bool

    Can introduce an agent in passive?

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            • form : String
            • question : Bool

              Introduces a question?

            • conditional : Bool

              Introduces a conditional?

            • optional : Bool

              Can be omitted?

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                      Auxiliary type

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                          • form : String
                          • auxType : AuxType
                          • person : Option Person

                            Person/number agreement

                          • number : Option Number
                          • Morphological tense. none for base forms (modals like can, will). Note: "past" modals (could, would) carry Past as a morphological feature even when semantically non-past (counterfactual, polite).

                          • Modal meaning in the force-flavor space (Imel, Guo, & @cite{imel-guo-steinert-threlkeld-2026}). Empty for non-modal auxiliaries.

                          • Register level. Formal items (must, shall) vs informal items (have to) vs unmarked (can, will).

                          • negForm : Option String

                            Contracted negative form with -n't, if it exists. none for paradigm gaps (mayn't, amn't).

                          • negIrregular : Bool

                            Phonological irregularity in the negative form (Z&P criterion C). true when the contracted form cannot be derived by regular -n't suffixation (e.g., won'twill, can'tcan, don'tdo).

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                                                  Have to: periphrastic deontic/circumstantial necessity. Informal register variant of must. Inflects unlike true modals: has to, had to, having to.

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                                                                    Project to the shared modal item core (form + meaning + register).

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                                                                      Modal adverb entry: an adverb expressing modal force and flavor without auxiliary morphology.

                                                                      Modal adverbs participate in concord constructions where two modal expressions yield a single-modality reading.

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                                                                            Project to the shared modal item core (form + meaning + register).

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                                                                                                • form : String
                                                                                                • coordinating : Bool

                                                                                                  Coordinating or subordinating?

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                                                                                                        • form : String
                                                                                                        • requiresSharedCQ : Bool

                                                                                                          Does this particle require the CQ to be commonly shared?

                                                                                                        • nonRoothianAlts : Bool

                                                                                                          Can it access non-Roothian alternatives?

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                                                                                                                  Quantificational force for adverbial quantifiers.

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                                                                                                                      An adverbial quantifier entry: a closed-class adverb that quantifies over situations (times, events, occasions).

                                                                                                                      In @cite{percus-2000}'s framework, adverbial quantifiers take a situation pronoun that determines their domain and introduce a new λs binder over their nuclear scope. Generalization Y constrains the situation pronoun to be bound by the nearest c-commanding λ.

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                                                                                                                            Infinitival marker "to" (UD: PART). Distinct from the preposition "to" (ADP). Used in infinitival complements: "John managed to sleep".

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