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Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-06-18 - Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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Locating the subjunctive at the interface of mood and modality, this book presents a systematic description of the use of the English subjunctive in main clause
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Locating the subjunctive at the interface of mood and modality, this book presents a systematic description of the use of the English subjunctive in main clause
Semantics of the English Subjunctive
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Authors: Francis James
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1986 - Publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : University of British Columbia Press

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In this book, Francis James develops his theory that the Englishsubjunctive has one meaning. Explaining how modality expresses therelation between a representat
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Change in Contemporary English
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Based on the systematic analysis of large amounts of computer-readable text, this book shows how the English language has been changing in the recent past, and