A System of Epistemic Modality in Thai
Suda Rangkupan
suda.r@chula.ac.th
Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Abstract

The paper explores the syntax and semantics of epistemic modality in Thai grammar. Four syntactic categories are found to express epistemic modality-preverbal auxiliaries, initial particles, adverbs and final particles. Epistemic modality can also be further classified: five categories are found to be distinctive in the system of Thai grammar-assumptive, speculative, deductive, dubitative and certainty.

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