Embedding epistemic modals in English: A corpus-based study
The question of whether epistemic modals contribute to the truth conditions of the sentences they appear in is a matter of active debate in the literature. Fueling this debate is the lack of consensus about the extent to which epistemics can appear in the scope of other operators. This corpus study...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Linguistic Society of America
2012-07-01
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| Series: | Semantics and Pragmatics |
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| Online Access: | http://semprag.org/article/view/2389 |