Modern Greek modals

The Modern Greek modal expressions of Uegaki and Hannon's elicited dataset of force-flavor combinations, as distributed with the modal typology database of Guo, Imel and Steinert-Threlkeld.

Implementation notes

The dataset records whether each expression is felicitous in contexts of three forces, necessity, weak necessity and possibility, and five flavors, epistemic, deontic, teleological, circumstantial and bouletic, with and without negation. An entry's meaning is its positive-polarity cells judged felicitous, with weak necessity entered as necessity and teleological as circumstantial; bouletic cells are left out, and so are the expressions with no other felicitous cell.

References

• [UH22]
• [GIST22]

def Greek.StandardModern.prepei : Modality.ModalItem

prepei 'must' expresses necessity of every flavor, and epistemic possibility.

Equations

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def Greek.StandardModern.mporei : Modality.ModalItem

mporei 'can' expresses possibility of every flavor, and epistemic and circumstantial necessity.

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def Greek.StandardModern.isos : Modality.ModalItem

isos 'perhaps' expresses epistemic possibility.

Equations

• Greek.StandardModern.isos = { form := "Isos", meaning := {(Modality.ModalForce.possibility, Modality.ModalFlavor.epistemic)} }

def Greek.StandardModern.modals : List Modality.ModalItem

The modal inventory.

Equations

• Greek.StandardModern.modals = [Greek.StandardModern.prepei, Greek.StandardModern.mporei, Greek.StandardModern.isos]