A Study on the Syntactic and Semantic Meaning of the Epistemic Modal Adverb "Meizhunr"

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10.2991/iccessh-18.2018.171How to use a DOI?

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Meizhunr; epistemic modal adverb; syntax; semantic

Abstract

Meizhunr is mainly used as an adverbial with flexible syntactic position. It belongs to the outside-proposition element. And it has the syntactic function of epistemic modal adverb. "Meizhunr" can be in front of the subject. And it has the highest frequency of co-occurrence with the epistemic modal verbs. When the modal verbs and "Meizhunr" are in the same sentence, the basic word order is "Meizhunr" > "Modal verbs". When the adverbs and "Meizhunr" are in the same sentence, the position is more flexible. "Meizhunr" has semantic features such as [+ speculative], [+ uncertainty], [+ irrealis], which express the speaker's subjective speculative about the content of expression.

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