A posteriori modality, implicative modality by abduction. A case study: he must have been drunk to have said that
The construction “he must have been drunk to have said that” has not been analysed in depth, even if it has been mentioned by P. Larreya, G. Furmaniak, E. Gilbert, among other linguists working on modalisation. It is particular in that it expresses, with an infinitival proposition, an event that too...
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Presses Universitaires du Midi
2015-07-01
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| Series: | Anglophonia |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/497 |