Simon De Wolf

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Davidse, Kristin, Simon De Wolf and An Van linden 2015 The development of the modal and discourse marker uses of (there/it is/I have) no doubt Journal of Historical Pragmatics 16:1, pp. 25–58 | Article
In this paper, we reconstruct the emergence of the modal and discourse marker uses of adverbial and clausal expressions with no doubt. Their history contrasts in a number of surprising ways with typical grammaticalization hypotheses. Existential expressions with no doubt emerged directly with… read more