Realisation in Speech
- (a) grammatically: through
- modal verbs (e.g., English: may, might, must; German: sollen),
- particular grammatical moods on verbs, the epistemic moods, or
- a specific grammatical element, such as an affix (Tuyuca: -hīyi "reasonable to assume") or particle; or
- (b) non-grammatically (often lexically): through
- adverbials (e.g., English: perhaps, possibly), or
- through a certain intonational pattern.
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