A minimalist treatment of modality

Lingua

Volumn 113, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 967-996

  Butler, Jonny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epistemic modality; Modals; Phases; Root modality; Scope

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038374446     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0024-3841(02)00146-8     Document Type: Article

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