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How did certain Dutch raising-to-subject patterns become deontic constructions?
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Why is it important?
Instead of offering a traditional grammaticalization account the paper attributes the development to contact with English, speakers of Dutch copying the deontic meaning of English BE SUPPOSED TO to the Dutch construction.
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This page is a summary of: Tracing the history of deontic NCI patterns in Dutch: A case of polysemy copying, January 2014, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/pbns.243.13col.
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