Abstract
This paper discusses the complex interaction between modal particles, verb position and interpretation of causal clauses in German.
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- Editorial
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- Articles
- Conjectural questions in Sm’algyax
- The epistemic conditional in polar questions as an argumentative strategy
- Evidentials and dubitatives in Finnish: perspective shift in questions and embedded contexts
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