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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Kansas
1980-01-01
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Series: | Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics |
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/538 |