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This continues to be interesting. When talking about
grammaticalization in languages whose history is not sufficiently
deep to have the course of things documented, we are doing internal
reconstruction, and some of the criteria employed in it are
semantic. Now I had shown a possible course for the
grammaticalization of a negative evaluation to apprehensive modality
or mood. It seems that several of the clauses S adduced by Ellison
- and maybe some others, too - , which have the structure 'S-APPR'
can sufficiently be brought under the general semantic denominator
'considering the negative evaluation of S'. And then modality
effects could result from the inference I mentioned. In this case,
the formative in question could originate in an evaluative word like
'bad/undesirable'.<br>
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The reverse course of things seems quite possible, too: 'I warn you
that S (is the case/might happen)' becomes 'S is bad' by
desemanticization. In this case, one would probably want to
postulate a verbal origin for an apprehensive formative.<br>
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