In:“All families and genera”: Exploring the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts
Edited by Isabel Moskowich, Inés Lareo and Gonzalo Camiña
[Not in series 237] 2021
► pp. 209–226
Chapter 11“This ingenious hypothe∫is hath a great appearance of truth”
The expression of true facts in the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts
Published online: 10 September 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.237.11est
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.237.11est
Article outline
- 1.Introduction and objectives
- 2.On adverbs and examples: Expressing true facts in Life Sciences
- 3.Evidence in context: data from CELiST
- 4.“My views amount to the following”: A brief analysis of the examples
- 5.Conclusion
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