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Review published In: Functions of Language
Vol. 17:1 (2010) ► pp.126–133

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Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen & Karin Aijmer. The semantic field of modal certainty: A corpus-based study of English adverbs. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2007. . [Topics in English Linguistics, 56]. x+395 pp. ISBN 978-3-11-019617-7

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Published online: 6 July 2010
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