A Cross-linguistic Study of Adult Speech to Young Children: Deontic Modality and Conditionality in Discourse

Clancy, Patricia M.; Akatasuka, Noriko; Strauss, Susan

doi:10.1075/slcs.36.05cla

In:Directions in Functional Linguistics
Edited by Akio Kamio
[Studies in Language Companion Series 36] 1997
► pp. 19–58

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Deontic Modality and Conditionality in Discourse

A Cross-linguistic Study of Adult Speech to Young Children

Patricia M. Clancy

Noriko Akatasuka

Susan Strauss

Published online: 20 November 1997

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.36.05cla

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