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qualifications with speaker commitment. But they are in any case fully sub-
ject to the latter, as is obvious from the fact that in linguistic expression they
can be affected by any qualification in the layered system with speaker
commitment. A descriptive epistemic qualification, for instance, can be
qualified by the speaker for aspect, time, deontic modality, epistemic mo-
dality, etc.
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