Subjective Modality
Modal expressions place propositions somewhere on a scale of likelihood. If the basis for placement is the current knowledge of the speaker, we can speak of subjective modality. In English, may and must are subjective modals. In this paper they are compared with their non-subjective or objective cou...
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University of Kansas, Department of Linguistics
1980-01-01
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| Series: | Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/532 |