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 ...

I provide an objection to an argument targeting the claim that epistemic modality concerns what is possible or necessary given what is known. The argument centers around uses of epistemic modals that ...

Evidentiality and modality are interrelated linguistic phenomena that shape the way speakers encode and communicate their sources of knowledge and their degree of commitment to a proposition.