This is a book about semantic theories of modality. Its main goal is to explain and evaluate important contemporary theories within linguistics and to discuss a wide range of linguistic phenomena from the perspective of these theories. The introduction describes the variety of grammatical phenomena
Modality (Oxford Surveys in Semantics and Pragmatics)
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 301
- Series
- Oxford Surveys in Semantics and Pragmatics
- Category
- Library
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