Comparative Concept: modality (sem)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
modality (sem)
| Typ | meaning |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | modality |
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Definition
a category that represents a situation in terms of its reality status with respect to the speaker or another conceiver, including degree of certainty that the situation holds in reality ( epistemic modality) and (un)desirability of, or intention to bring about, a not currently true situation ( deontic modality). (Section 12.1)