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Article published In: Languages in Contrast
Vol. 16:2 (2016) ► pp.239–263

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Adverbs of certainty in a cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspective

English-Polish

 | University of Bialystok (Poland)
Published online: 29 September 2016
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lic.16.2.04roz
The increasing interest in cross-linguistic research in the area of epistemic modality calls for developing a common theoretical framework within which the inventories and uses of epistemics can be compared across languages. The aim of this study is to compare the repertoires of English and Polish adverbs of certainty taking as the starting point the classification employed by Simon-Vandenbergen and Aijmer (2007). It attempts to examine the validity of their typology for cross-linguistic studies with reference to data from English and Polish. The uses of English and Polish epistemics are illustrated with examples from the British National Corpus and the PWN corpus, respectively. Because the means of expressing epistemic modality differ both the cross-linguistically and cross-culturally, the findings are placed in a cross-cultural perspective.
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