[Lingtyp] Epistemic possibility plus affective evaluation?

[Volker Gast]

The specific variety of Spanish that I learned (Mexico/Chiapas) 
has an expression "a lo mejor" which is basically an adverbial of 
epistemic possibility ("perhaps"), but which seems to come with a positive 
connotation ("hopefully"). But it is possible that the positive 
connotation is due to my imagination, triggered by "mejor" ("better"). 
There are certainly native speakers of Spanish on this list who can 
clarify that.

Volker

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Prof. V. Gast
http://linktype.iaa.uni-jena.de/VG

On Mon, 19 Oct 2020, Bastian Persohn wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> I was wondering if you know of any examples of expressions of epistemic
> possibility - especially adverbials - that additionally contribute an 
> element
> of affective evaluation, i.e. expressions that could be paraphrased in 
> English along
> the lines of  ʻmaybe (and I hope that is the case)ʼ or ʻmaybe (but 
> hopefully that's not the case)ʼ.
>
> Thanks so much!
>
> Bastian
>
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