Some reflections on English modal verbs: potential worlds and context
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https://doi.org/10.25267/Pragmalinguistica.1997.i5.18Info
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- José Luis Berbeira Gardón (ES) Universidad de Cádiz
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This paper is a reply to Dr. Carretero Lapeyre's review of our book Los verbos modales ingleses. Estudio semántico-pragmático (this volume). Carretero draws attention to different problems with our approach, and provides a considerable number of illustrative examples. Nonetheless, I would like to address the issues within Carretero's paper independently and defend the approach followed in our book.
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