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Publication details [#1247]

Belle, William Van. 1973. Modale en performatieve werkwoorden. Spektator 3 (4) : 264–288.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

Dutch

Keywords

modal verb | modality | performative verb | speech act

Annotation

What differentiates two different speech acts with the same proposition is called their 'modal constituent'. B. investigates two of the linguistic devices to indicate this 'modality', viz. modal verbs and performative verbs.