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Publication details [#28018]

Myhill, John. 1994. Can and feature meaning. Functions of Language 3 (1) : 31–68.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

future | markedness | meaning | tense | verb

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

ISBN

0929-998X

Journal DOI

10.1075/fol

Annotation

This paper focuses on the possibility function of the verb 'can', which appears to constitute a rather recent linguistic development in the area of future tense marking.