By Luis Alonso-Ovalle,Paula Mene'ndez-Benito,#233,ndez-Benito
ISBN-10: 019966529X
ISBN-13: 9780199665297
that Maria married and indications the speaker's lack of ability or unwillingness to spot the health care professional in question.
Although epistemic indefinites have featured in contemporary semantic literature, an entire figuring out of the phenomenon continues to be missing: there's presently no contract at the resource in their epistemic part; there's inadequate cross-linguistic facts to improve a semantic typology of these things; and the parallelisms and ameliorations among epistemic indefinites and different expressions that express epistemic modality haven't been explored intensive. during this quantity, a staff of specialists within the field
offer novel empirical observations and critical theoretical insights on epistemic indefinites and comparable issues reminiscent of modal unfastened relations, transformed numerals, and epistemic modals. they supply a coherent assessment of the problems that form the topic in addition to putting them within the context of
current semantic study, relocating in the direction of the advance of a semantic typology of epistemic indefinites that explores where of those expressions inside of a normal typology of modal items.
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