English tense and modals: Extreme subjectification

Langacker, Ronald W.

doi:10.1075/cilt.243.05lan

In:Motivation in Language: Studies in honor of Günter Radden
Edited by Hubert Cuyckens, Thomas Berg, René Dirven † and Klaus-Uwe Panther
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 243] 2003
► pp. 3–26

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Extreme subjectification

English tense and modals

Ronald W. Langacker

Published online: 17 July 2003

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.243.05lan

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