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Root and Epistemic Modals: Causality in Two Worlds Author(s): Eve E. Sweetser Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1982), pp. 484-507 Please see “How to cite” in the online sidebar for full citation information. Please contact BLS regarding any further use of this work. BLS retains copyright for both print and screen forms of the publication. BLS may be contacted via http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/bls/ . The Annual Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society is published online via eLanguage , the Linguistic Society of America's digital publishing platform.

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Root and Epistemic Modals: Causality in Two Worlds

Author(s): Eve E. Sweetser

Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics

Society (1982), pp. 484-507

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Please contact BLS regarding any further use of this work. BLS retains

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