Abstract: This talk presents a progress report on developing a mental space analysis of tense and modality, based on prior cognitive semantic and typological research in those domains. Mental spaces ...

Epistemic modality refers to the linguistic means by which speakers express degrees of certainty, probability or belief regarding a proposition. It intricately links language structure with cognitive ...

We propose a semantic analysis of the particles afinal (European Portuguese) and alla fine (Italian) in terms of the notion of truth unpersistence, which combines both epistemic modality and ...