“Surely you knew!”: Surely as a marker of evidentiality and stance

Functions of Language

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 253-285

  Downing, Angela ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

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EID: 84989382344     PISSN: 0929998X     EISSN: 15699765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/fol.8.2.05dow     Document Type: Article

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