describing an entity from the implicit perspective of the speaker and the speech event, e.g. the speech event time. Example: in the subjective epistemic modal - construction Wendy might be in Santa Fe, the uncertainty about Wendy being in Santa Fe is that of the speaker at the time of the speech event, although neither of these pieces of information (the speaker or the time of the speech event) are explicitly expressed in the sentence. (Section 12.3.4)