Is dare in "I daresay" lexical or auxiliary?
Hello there,
Well, everything is in the question above. The problem is, there's no "to" in the construction I daresay, and semantically speaking DARE is much more abstract here than in canonical lexical uses (Don't you dare to tell her that).
Does anyone know what linguists say about this set use?
Thanks a lot,
Ben from Paris
Moderator note: this thread has been moved from Fr-En grammar.
Hello there,
Well, everything is in the question above. The problem is, there's no "to" in the construction I daresay, and semantically speaking DARE is much more abstract here than in canonical lexical uses (Don't you dare to tell her that).
Does anyone know what linguists say about this set use?
Thanks a lot,
Ben from Paris
Moderator note: this thread has been moved from Fr-En grammar.