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Systems of TMA and Related Categories in Functional Discourse Grammar: A Brief Overview

  • Kees Hengeveld EMAIL logo and Hella Olbertz
From the journal Open Linguistics

Abstract

In this introductory paper, we will briefly introduce FDG and its treatment of systems of tense, aspect, mood, evidentiality, polarity, mirativity and localization, as well as their lexical counterparts.

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Received: 2017-08-13
Accepted: 2017-08-17
Published Online: 2018-11-10

© by Kees Hengeveld, Hella Olbertz, published by De Gruyter

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