The directive function of the English modals

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The directive function of the English modals

The aim of this thesis is to provide a detailed account, within a 'systemic' framework of those properties of English sentences containing modal verbs, which will allow us to make predictions about the potential directiveness of some such sentences but not others, about ambiguity of commun...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Butler, Christopher
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	1982
Subjects:	English language modal verbs modality semantics
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28577/

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