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Table 2 Raw frequency of inclination adverbials from the COHA (1810–1960)

From: The factualization of ‘I suppose’ in American English: a corpus based study of the subjectification of epistemic predicates toward factuality

 

1810

1820

1830

1840

1850

1860

1870

1880

1890

1990

1910

1920

1930

1940

1950

1960

maybe

    

1

    

1

2

5

1

1

1

4

perhaps

1

1

 

1

2

3

1

2

2

3

1

3

1

 

2

2

probably

   

1

 

2

   

1

1

1

  

2

2

likely

  

1

  

4

   

1

1

2

    
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