“Arguments That Could Possibly Be Urged”: Modal Verbs and Tentativeness in the Coruña Corpus
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The Coruña Corpus Tool
The Coruña Corpus of scientific writing will be used for the diachronic study of scientific discourse from most linguistic levels and thereby contribute to the study of the historical development of English. The Coruña Corpus Tool is an information retrieval system that allows the extraction of knowledge from the corpus.
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عنوان ژورنال: Languages
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2226-471X
DOI: 10.3390/languages4030057