Modals and periphrastics in English : an investigation into the semantic correspondence between certain English modal verbs and their periphrastic equivalents /
English has a number of periphrastic verbal forms that are semantically close to particular modal verbs and perform suppletive functions in relation to them (eg, have (got) to - must and be able to - can). After an exploration of the syntactic, semantic and phonological properties of potential perip...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Tübingen :
Max Niemeyer Verlag,
1995
Tübingen : [2013] |
| Edition: | Reprint 2012 |
| Series: | Linguistische Arbeiten (Max Niemeyer Verlag) ;
339 |
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