Evidentiality, modality and probability

Linguistics and Philosophy

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 147-206

  McCready, Eric ^a   Ogata, Norry ^b  

^a AOYAMA GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anaphora; Dynamic semantics; Evidentials; Japanese; Modal subordination; Probability; Speech acts

Indexed keywords

EID: 36148943932     PISSN: 01650157     EISSN: 15730549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10988-007-9017-7     Document Type: Article

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