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Glossary of Linguistic Terms

Judgment Modality

Definition:

Judgment modality is an epistemic modality that connotes the speaker's

  • strength of inference, or
  • degree of confidence

in the reality of the proposition expressed by his or her utterance.

Examples:

(English)

Here are some examples of words that express different kinds of judgment modality:

  • may signals speculative inference
  • must signals deductive strength of inference
See Also:
Source:
53, 57–58, 64

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