Modals and Periphrastics in English : : An Investigation into the Semantic Correspondence between Certain English Modal Verbs and Their Periphrastic Equivalents / / Paul Westney.
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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Tübingen : : Max Niemeyer Verlag, , [2013] ©1995 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Linguistische Arbeiten ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
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