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 |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Catalan |
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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2024-10-01
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| Series: | Catalan Journal of Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://revistes.uab.cat/catjl/article/view/442 |
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