Epistemic disjuncts in early modern english

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 219-256

  González Álvarez, María Dolores ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adverb; Disjunct; Epistemic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989390068     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.1.2.04gon     Document Type: Article

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