Modality's semantic map

Linguistic Typology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 79-124

  Van Der Auwera, Johan ^a   Plungian, Vladimir A ^a  

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Author keywords

Auxiliaries; Degrammaticalization; Grammaticalization; Modality; Semantic change; Semantic map; Semantics

Indexed keywords

EID: 61249738300     PISSN: 14300532     EISSN: 1613415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/lity.1998.2.1.79     Document Type: Article

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