Some Observations on German Modals: Agent-Oriented vs. Epistemic Modality

Heine, Bernd

doi:10.1075/tsl.32.03hei

In:Modality in Grammar and Discourse
Edited by Joan L. Bybee and Suzanne Fleischman
[Typological Studies in Language 32] 1995
► pp. 17–54

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Agent-Oriented vs. Epistemic Modality

Some Observations on German Modals

Bernd Heine

Published online: 21 August 1995

https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.32.03hei

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