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MorphemeAddict@hidden.email wrote: > > If hedging is a way of modifying the modality of an utterance > implying that the situation is TRUE despite reasons to believe > otherwise, are there analogous, distinct modalities implying that the > situation is obvious/significant/reasonable/necessary/etc. despite > reasons to believe otherwise? > Possibly, but do any natural languages have simple equivalents? I'm sure that most(all?) languages can combine more than one modality to achieve any desired effect. Regards, Rick Morneau http://www.eskimo.com/~ram http://www.axxess.net/~ram