Stackability of Modalities

This paper examines the stackability of the deontic modalities,permission, ability, obligation and necessity, in Portuguese, Malay, Korean and English. Principles are developed in the form of predictions about the possible logical combinations of these modalities and tested by means of sentences sub...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shaw, Ines Senna
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Kansas 1980-01-01
Series:Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1808/538