Categorization principles of modal meaning categories: a critical assessment
This paper offers a critical analysis of the features used to define categories of modal meaning (expressed by modal verbs). First, Palmer’s (1990) and Huddleston and Pullum et al’s (2002) definition of dynamic modality is compared with the taxonomic approach to that area of modal meaning in Depraet...
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| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires du Midi
2015-07-01
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| Series: | Anglophonia |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/476 |