Graded Modality Qualitative and Quantitative Perspectives

This book explores graded expressions of modality, a rich and underexplored source of insight into modal semantics. Studies on modal language to date have largely focussed on a small and non-representative subset of expressions, namely modal auxiliaries such as 'must', 'might', a...

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Main Author:	Lassiter
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Series:	Oxford linguistics. Oxford studies in semantics and pragmatics ; 10.
Subjects:	Modality (Linguistics) Modalité (Linguistique) Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book