Comparative Concept: negative epistemic stance (sem)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
negative epistemic stance (sem)
| Typ | meaning |
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| Alias(se) | negative epistemic stance |
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a negative commitment on the part of the speaker to the actuality of a proposition expressed in a clause. Example: in If you had pressed this button, the door would have opened, the speaker has expressed a commitment to the proposition that you didn't press the button. (Section 17.3.1)