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This research project aims to enhance the understanding of modality in natural language by analyzing modal determiners across languages like Catalan, Spanish, and English. It will utilize both corpus data and questionnaires to explore how these elements contribute to expressing possibilities and uncertainties.
Modal expressions allow us to talk about unrealized possibilities and uncertain scenarios.
For instance, the sentence in (1), with the modal ""might"", describes a possible scenario compatible with the speaker's evidence.1) (Given what I know), Jones might be the murderer.The ability to construct discourses about the non-actual is a fundamental cognitive skill and one of the design features of human language (Hockett 1960).
Accordingly, modality has been extensively studied in linguistics and ph…
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