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Salkie, Raphael – Language Sciences, 1996
Discusses and compares the meaning of epistemic uses of modals. Demonstrates that the relation between them is not as simple as has been frequently suggested. The article bases its observations on the data from a corpus of parallel French and English texts, pointing out that such a corpus can open new avenues for investigation of an old topic. (18…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Computational Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Data Interpretation