Modality and Negation: An Introduction to the Special Issue

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 223-260

  Morante, Roser ^a   Sporleder, Caroline ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 84862857004     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: 15309312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/COLI_a_00095     Document Type: Article

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