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Peter Collins, Modals and quasi-modals in English (Language and Computers: Studies in Practical Linguistics 67). Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2009. Pp. viii + 193.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2013

Raphael Salkie*
Affiliation:
University of Brighton, Brighton BN2 0JY, [email protected]

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