“What bees to be maun be”: Aspects of deontic and epistemic modality in a northern dialect of Irish english

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Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 25-62

  Corrigan, Karen P ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1075/eww.21.1.03cor     Document Type: Article

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