module: modality

Class ModalityFeature


Extends:

        MorphosyntacticFeature
 

Direct Instances:

  1. PhysicalAbilitiveModality
  2. ConditionalPhysicalAbilitiveModality
  3. PossibilityModality
  4. AbilitiveModality
  5. MentalAbilitiveModality
  6. PermissiveModality
  7. DeonticModality
  8. AnyModality
  9. OtherModality
  10. EpistemicModality
  11. EpistemicNecessityModality
  12. NecessityModality
  13. ObligativeModality
  14. WeakObligativeModality
  15. EpistemicPossibilityModality
 

Direct Subclasses:

None
 

Class Documentation:

Modality is the theory of possibility and necessity. As a grammatical feature, it represents those dimensions in the domains of knowledge (epistemic modality), social relations (deontic modality) and ability (abilitive modality), and possibly others.

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