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Publication details [#4830]
Hofmann, Thomas Ron. 1979. On modality in English and other languages. Papers in Linguistics 12 (1-2) : 1–37. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
A semantic definition of modality is proposed to account for the common perception of a class of modal verbs in languages where there is no syntactic or morphological motivation.