[Lingtyp] Epistemic possibility plus affective evaluation?

[Andrea Sansò]

Dear all,

as already pointed out by Nigel Vincent, Italian magari 'maybe' (with
positive evaluation) is a good candidate. There is a very good paper on
Italian magari in Cognitive Linguistics (2010; by P. Pietrandrea and F.
Masini).

Best,
Andrea


Il mar 20 ott 2020, 13:01 Sebastian Nordhoff <
sebastian.nordhoff at glottotopia.de> ha scritto:

> Dear all,
> one obvious example which came to my mind was inshallah in Arabic (and
> ojalá in Spanish). Both have an epistemic value of uncertainty, but a
> positive attitudinal stance.
> Best wishes
> Sebastian
>
>
> On 10/20/20 12:55 PM, paolo Ramat wrote:
> > 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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