Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Epistemic
Modality in ME
- Scope
- Deontic:
part of the
proposition
content of
the clause
- Epistemic: not part
of the p.c. and has a
whole proposition in
its scope
- "Double Modals" e.g. might could
- Deontic: closer
to the main verb
- Epistemic: further
away from the main
verb
- Temporality
- Deontics: later
than reference
time
- Epistemics: present
time reference; also
- past
- Impersonal
constructions,
impersonals in
conditional
clauses, general
statements
- With 'nedes'
- 3rd person -
more likely
- Leftward position
- Modals + impersonal verb;
modals + intransitive infinitve
(to be, to become)
- Bi-clausal structures with 'that'
- Modal + be