You currently have no access to view or download this content. Please log in with your institutional or personal account if you should have access to this content through either of these.
Showing a limited preview of this publication:
Abstract
Dutch is traditionally considered to have six modal auxiliaries: kunnen ‘can’, mogen ‘may’, moeten ‘must’, hoeven ‘need’, zullen ‘shall’, and willen ‘will’ (e.g. Duinhoven 1997). However, a diachronic look at these verbs shows that they do not behave as a coherent group: the first four show an increasing tendency to converge, but the latter two do not participate in the evolutions. This brief paper offers a summary survey of the most important facts.
