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Modal Adverbs

Modal Adverbs is a linguistic construct in modal semantics that denotes a category of adverbial expressions which modify the force or domain of a modal operator by specifying the manner, likelihood, or conditions under which a proposition is asserted to hold.

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Modal expressions in English. By Michael R. Perkins Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1983. Pp. xi, 183. $18.50.

Heather McCallum-Bayliss · Language · 1985 · 514 citations

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German and Italian modal particles and clause structure

Anna Cardinaletti · The Linguistic Review · 2011 · 176 citations

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The semantic roots of positive polarity: epistemic modal verbs and adverbs in English, Greek and Italian

Anastasia Giannakidou, Alda Mari · Linguistics and Philosophy · 2018 · 110 citations · Full text

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Linguistic modality effects on fundamental frequency in speech

Douglas O’Shaughnessy, Jonathan Allen · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1983 · 98 citations

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Pronominalization, Negation, and the Analysis of Adverbs

George Lakoff · eScholarship (California Digital Library) · 1970 · 90 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. JN
    Jan Nuyts

    University of Antwerp, Belgium

    3 publications · 102 citations

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  2. GL
    George Lakoff

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    2 publications · 116 citations

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  3. AV
    An Van linden

    KU Leuven, Belgium

    2 publications · 42 citations

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  4. CH
    Chia-Ling Hsieh

    National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

    1 publications · 26 citations

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  5. BE
    Bruna Elisa da Costa Moreira

    Universidade de Brasília, Brazil

    1 publications · 18 citations

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Institutions

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  1. KU Leuven

    Leuven, Belgium

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    110 citations

  2. Research Foundation - Flanders

    Brussels, Belgium

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    65 citations

  3. University of Antwerp

    Antwerp, Belgium

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    42 citations

  4. Michigan State University

    East Lansing, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    19 citations

  5. University of Münster

    Münster, Germany

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    14 citations

  6. Université Sorbonne Nouvelle

    Paris, France

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    72 citations

  7. Wayne State College

    Wayne, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    37 citations

  8. Délégation Paris 7

    Bagnolet, France

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    13 citations

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  1. Lingua

    4 publications · 93 citations

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  2. Functions of Language

    2 publications · 63 citations

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  3. Linguistics

    2 publications · 84 citations

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  4. Journal of Pragmatics

    2 publications · 96 citations

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  5. Australian Journal of Linguistics

    2 publications · 108 citations

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