Table of contents
Abbreviations
Introduction
The notional category of epistemic modality
A typological classification of epistemic systems
Epistemic modality in Italian
Semantic oppositions
A typological characterization of italian epistemic modality
Inflectional and distributional constraints.: The (low) performativity of italian epistemic modality
Aspectual constraints on the propositional content
The incompleteness of the propositional content and the meta-propositionality of epistemic modality
A diachronic hypothesis
Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Subject Index
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