Remarks on “modality and conversational information”

John Newman

doi:10.1515/thli.1976.3.1-3.281

Remarks on “modality and conversational information”

John Newman

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Groenendijk and Stokhof have developed a modal system which accounts for a specific possibility meaning of English may. Some facts about modal expressions which are not discussed by them throw doubt on the extent to which their analysis accounts for related modal expressions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	281-287
Number of pages	7
Journal	Theoretical Linguistics
Volume	3
Issue number	1-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1515/thli.1976.3.1-3.281
Publication status	Published - 1976

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Remarks on “modality and conversational information”

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