none 10.1075/cal.32.06pel John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 130218754 3892890 1419291 202507021843000055 10.1075 2025-07-02T12:43:23Z 2021-09-15T06:31:51Z 2 1573-594X 10.1075/cal https://benjamins.com/ catalog/cal Martin Hilpert Université de Neuchâtel https://ror.org/00vasag41 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6347-5076 Bert Cappelle Université de Lille https://ror.org/02kzqn938 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4779-6259 Ilse Depraetere Université de Lille https://ror.org/02kzqn938 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3853-3876 This volume explores how Diachronic Construction Grammar can shed new light on changes in a central and well-researched domain of grammar, namely modality. Its main goal is to show how constructional analyses can help us address some of the long-standing questions that have informed discussions of modal expressions and their development, and to illustrate the processes that are involved in these developments on the basis of data from languages such as English, Finnish, French, Galician, German, and Japanese. The studies in this volume are organized around three interrelated topics. The first of these concerns the organization of modal constructions in a network. A second focus area of the studies in this volume concerns the developmental pathways that modal constructions follow diachronically. The third topic that ties the contributions of this volume together is the contrast between constructionalization and constructional change. 32 10 12 2021 9 15 2021 9789027209498 9789027259004 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/cal.32 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027259004 https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027259004.pdf https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/cal.32/html Rea Peltola Université de Caen Normandie, CRISCO EA 4255 https://ror.org/051kpcy16 Postmodal auxiliaries in mirative complement patterns Abstract This paper explores the semantic motivation of postmodal auxiliaries in complement constructions conveying mirativity in French and Finnish. French pouvoir ‘can’ and Finnish pitää ‘should’ both occur as postmodal markers in complements of epistemic and axiological items. These constructions refer to events that deviate from what is discursively projected as expected. As a modal verb of possibility, pouvoir profiles the meaning ‘ p and not ¬p ’, which is based on an opposition, while pitää , originally a necessity verb, gives prominence to the paradigmatic meaning ’ p instead of q 1 , q 2 …’. While the two verbs function in a similar manner as indexes of an interclausal semantic link in mirative constructions, the meaning of unexpectedness is not construed in the same way, and the critical contexts in the evolution of postmodal complement patterns with pouvoir and pitää are of a different type. 10 12 2021 9 15 2021 149 184 10.1075/cal.32.06pel https://benjamins.com/catalog/cal.32.06pel https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/cal.32.06pel/html Digital Morphology Archives [text corpus] DMA = 2003 Finnish Literary Classics, Kielipankki Version [text corpus] FLC = 2016 FRANTEXT Intégral. 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