Tensions between discourse structure and conceptual semantics: The syntax of epistemic modal expressions

Studies in Language

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 103-135

  Nuyts, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

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EID: 84989405024     PISSN: 03784177     EISSN: 15699978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/sl.24.1.05nuy     Document Type: Article

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