The Semantic Field of Modal Certainty

The Semantic Field of Modal Certainty

A Corpus-based Study of English Adverbs

by Karin Aijmer, A. M. Simon-Vandenbergen

395 pages· 2007· ISBN 9783110196177
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Provides an account of the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic properties of modal adverbs of certainty in English. This book relies on three types of data: monolingual corpora, translation corpora and informant testing. It explores the semantic field of certainty as realised by English adverbs.

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