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Modality
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Modality is among the broadest notions used in linguistics. Therefore the term modality is delimited here into four categories of dispositional (participant-internal), circumstantial (often called dynamic), deontic, and epistemic modality. …

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Wiemer, Björn and Fortuin, Egbert, “Modality”, in: Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics Online, Editor-in-Chief General Editor Marc L. Greenberg, Lenore A. Grenoble. Consulted online on 08 December 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2589-6229_ESLO_COM_035993>
First published online: 2020



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