The Semantic Field of Modal Certainty : a Corpus-Based Study of English Adverbs.

In spite of the vast literature on modality in English, very little research has been done on modal adverbs as a group. While there are studies of individual adverbs, the semantic and pragmatic relations between them have been left largely unexplored. This book takes a close look at the whole field...

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Main Author: Simon-Vandenbergen, Anne-Marie
Other Authors: Aijmer, Karin
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2008.
Series:Topics in English Linguistics, v. 56.
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