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
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Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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2012 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston
Printing: Hubert & Co. GmbH & Co. KG, Gttingen
Printed on acid-free paper

Printed in Germany
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