Modality in Modern Hebrew: A Preliminary Attempt To Account for Epistemic and Deontic Interpretations
Several aspects of the modality system in Modern Hebrew are examined. In general, Hebrew modal expressions are found to be unambiguous as to epistemic and deontic interpretations. The behavior of modal expressions with respect to a number of syntactic categories and constructions is also examined. I...
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| 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/1808/537 |