@article{55b96b2c831e4c47bdab9bfec6b3bf59,
title = "On general interconnections between prepositional infinitive, future tense, deontic modality and perfective tense in German: Local allativity",
abstract = "The article discusses two distinct uses of the German auxiliary werden-as a future marker, as a passive marker-and the deep semantic link with deontic modality in German as well as the diachronic emergence of zu 'to' as an infinitival marker. There is reason to assume that one single feature controls all these distinct uses: that of local allativity. Such local allativity is shown to be interconnected with perfective event characteristics, for which a quasi-formal account is presented.",
author = "W Abraham",
year = "1999",
language = "English",
volume = "24",
pages = "361--405",
journal = "Sprachwissenschaft",
issn = "0344-8169",
number = "4",
}