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Aguirre, Manuel and Louis Goossens. 1977. Dynamic synchrony: An illustration from the English modals.
Publication type
Working paper
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
A study of the modal verbs 'can', 'must' and 'may' as an illustration to show that (i) the nature of language can best be grasped by a combination of historical and synchronic analysis, and (ii) all matters semantic are by definition pragmatic.