Modal tense: if and wish
This paper is concerned with uses of certain morphemes, most notably the past, to represent meanings of distance from reality in modal expressions. This class of morphology has been identified with the names subjunctive, fake tense, fake past, modal past and is referred to here as X-marking, after v...
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
2024
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/155079 |