The Syntax of Modal Auxiliaries

The Blackwell Companion to Syntax

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages 1-22

  Barbiers, Sjef ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Complement; Distinctions; Epistemic; Hypothesis; Main verbs

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950087370     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470996591.ch70     Document Type: Chapter

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