Modality and facivity : one perspective on the meaning of the English modal auxiliaries
This study concentrates on modality as expressed by the set of modal auxiliaries and seeks to establish that these verbs share semantic as well as syntactic properties by identifying a single core meaning which they share. The relationship between modality and factivity is examined with the aim of g...
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University of Leeds
1987
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.381046 |