The Catalan Epistemic Modal Marker “Pot molt ben ser”: from Emphatic Possibility to High Probability

In this article I deal with the Catalan epistemic marker pot molt ben ser ‘it may very well be’, which expresses high confidence on the part of the speaker in the truth value of the propositional content of his utterance. I start by extracting examples of the construction from the CICA, CIVAL and C...

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Main Author: Mar Massanell i Messalles
Format: Article
Language:Catalan
Published: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2024-10-01
Series:Catalan Journal of Linguistics
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Online Access:https://revistes.uab.cat/catjl/article/view/442
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