The case of permissive can and may: 12. Towards a pragmatic approach to modality

Vanparys, Johan

doi:10.1075/pbcs.5.19van

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The Pragmatic Perspective: Selected papers from the 1985 International Pragmatics Conference
Edited by Jef Verschueren and Marcella Bertuccelli Papi
[Pragmatics & Beyond Companion Series 5] 1987
► pp. 229–

12. Towards a pragmatic approach to modality

The case of permissive can and may

Johan Vanparys

Published online: 01 January 1987
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbcs.5.19van

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COLLINS, PETER

2007. Can/could and may/might in British, American and Australian English: a corpus-based account. World Englishes 26:4 ► pp. 474 ff.

Klinge, Alex

1993. The English modal auxiliaries: from lexical semantics to utterance interpretation. Journal of Linguistics 29:2 ► pp. 315 ff.

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