[Lingtyp] Epistemic possibility plus affective evaluation?

[paolo Ramat]

Volker's mention of Span. *a lo mejor * lets me think of the Ital. opposite*
alla peggio *"at worst", "in the worst" (while it doesn't exist an
adverbial corresponding to *a lo mejor):*
It's terribly raining; let's hope that the bus comes on time, *alla peggio*
we'll have to go on foot". However, it does not seem that* alla peggio* has
an epistemic value.

Best,
Paolo


Il giorno mar 20 ott 2020 alle ore 12:14 Kilu von Prince <
watasenia at gmail.com> ha scritto:

> 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
>>
>> _____________
>> 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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