Epistemic Meaning: A Crosslinguistic and Functional-Cognitive Study 9783110219036, 9783110204384

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Epistemic Meaning

Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 43

Editors Georg Bossong Bernard Comrie Yaron Matras

De Gruyter Mouton

Epistemic Meaning A Crosslinguistic and Functional-Cognitive Study

by Kasper Boye

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN 978-3-11-020438-4 e-ISBN 978-3-11-021903-6 ISSN 0933-761X Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for at the Library of Congress. Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available in the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de. 쑔 2012 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston Printing: Hubert & Co. GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen 앝 Printed on acid-free paper 앪 Printed in Germany www.degruyter.com



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