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Peer reviewedBouma, Lowell – Lingua, 1975
The modal auxiliary system in both German and English is seen as a grammatical category (relative assertion) which stands in specific opposition to the absence of a modal in a sentence (factual assertion). (Available from North-Holland Publishing Co., P. O. Box 211, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.) (CHK)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Form Classes (Languages)
