What is it about?
An alternative to the view that deontic BE SUPPOSED TO developed from the homomorphous evidential construction.
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Why is it important?
The paper repudiates the validity of a repeatedly argued for semasiological path and offers onomasiological support for one that was suggested earlier.
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This page is a summary of: Revisiting Be Supposed To from a Diachronic Constructionist Perspective, English Studies, October 2009, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/00138380903180926.
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