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“All families and genera”: Exploring the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts
Edited by Isabel Moskowich, Inés Lareo and Gonzalo Camiña
[Not in series 237] 2021
► pp. 209–226

Chapter 11
“This ingenious hypothe∫is hath a great appearance of truth”

The expression of true facts in the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts

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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction and objectives
  • 2.On adverbs and examples: Expressing true facts in Life Sciences
  • 3.Evidence in context: data from CELiST
  • 4.“My views amount to the following”: A brief analysis of the examples
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note
  • Works cited
Published online: 10 September 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/z.237.11est
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