[Lingtyp] Epistemic possibility plus affective evaluation?

[Kilu von Prince]

Hi Bastian,

that is pretty much the definition of apprehensive or timitive mood.

Best,
Kilu

On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 11:45 AM Volker Gast <volker.gast at uni-jena.de>
wrote:

>
> 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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> 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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