Anatomy of a modal construction

Linguistic Inquiry

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 445-483

  Von Fintel, Kai ^a   Iatridou, Sabine ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Exclusive operators; Intervention; Minimizers; Modality; Necessity; Negative polarity; Only; Scope; Sufficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548168388     PISSN: 00243892     EISSN: 00243892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/ling.2007.38.3.445     Document Type: Review

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