Modality in Malay

This study of the modal expressions in Malay will be focused on the major syntactic characteristics of modality in relation to various speech acts, negation and tense/aspect. In attempting to characterize the semantic properties of modal expressions, and in justifying their categorization into two m...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Idris, Abdul Aziz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Kansas, Department of Linguistics 1980-01-01
Series:Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1808/531