[Lingtyp] Epistemic possibility plus affective evaluation?

Vladimir Panov panovmeister at gmail.com
Tue Oct 20 12:42:09 UTC 2020


The discourse marker/adverb "magari" in Italian is exactly this kind of
element.

пн, 19 окт. 2020 г. в 17:50, Bastian Persohn <persohn.linguistics at gmail.com
>:

> 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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