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Judgment Modality

Judgment modality is an epistemic modality that connotes the speaker's strength of inference, or degree of confidence in the reality of the proposition …

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Jussive Mood

Jussive mood is a directive mood that signals a speaker's command, permission, or agreement that the proposition expressed by his or her utterance be …

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Justification Relation

A justification relation is an interpropositional relation in which one or more propositions provide the basis or right of the speaker to perform the …

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