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How did Dutch VERONDERSTELD WORDEN TE + Infinitive get to express obligation?

What is it about?

How did certain Dutch raising-to-subject patterns become deontic constructions?

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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