The Grammaticalization of the Epistemic Adverb Perhaps in Late Middle and Early Modern English
Old and Early Middle English did not yet have modal sentential adverbs of low probability. Old Norse did not have such words, either. From the 13th century onwards first epistemic prepositional phrases of Anglo-Norman origin functioning as modal adverbials consisting of the preposition per/par and n...
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| Language: | English |
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2021-12-01
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| Series: | Studia Anglica Posnaniensia |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/stap-2021-0005 |