Epistemic Modality in ME

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Something to help me find those epistemics in Chaucer.
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Epistemic Modality in ME
  1. Scope
    1. Deontic: part of the proposition content of the clause
      1. Epistemic: not part of the p.c. and has a whole proposition in its scope
      2. "Double Modals" e.g. might could
        1. Deontic: closer to the main verb
          1. Epistemic: further away from the main verb
          2. Temporality
            1. Deontics: later than reference time
              1. Epistemics: present time reference; also - past
              2. Impersonal constructions, impersonals in conditional clauses, general statements
                1. With 'nedes'
                  1. 3rd person - more likely
                    1. Leftward position
                      1. Modals + impersonal verb; modals + intransitive infinitve (to be, to become)
                        1. Bi-clausal structures with 'that'
                          1. Modal + be
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