The linguistic analysis of modality, with special reference to English and German
The aim of this thesis is threefold; to examine critically previous attempts (taxonomic and generative syntactic and semantic, etc.) to analyze 'modality' phenomena, to propose an integrated theoretical framework for analysing such phenomena, and to examine in detail the syntax and semanti...
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University of Edinburgh
1979
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.657447 |