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Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking
Language:
Hungarian
Feature:
Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking
by
Johan van der Auwera
and
Andreas Ammann
Value:
Overlap for either possibility or necessity
Examples
Sentence igt-3617:
Haza lehet men-n-em?
Haza
to.home
lehet
may
men-n-em?
go-
inf
-
1sg
Am I allowed to go home?
Sentence igt-3618:
Lehet, hogy jöv-ök.
Lehet,
may
hogy
that
jöv-ök.
come-
ind
.PRES.INDEF.
1sg
I may be coming.
References
Kenesei et al. 1998
cite
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