Epistemic Modal Verbs in the Field of Linguistics and Literature: A Corpus-Based Study

Epistemic modality, a linguistic category, particularly deals with the interactive dimensions of various discourses. modality in broad terms can be defined as any modal system that indicates degree assurance what speaker says. The present study identifies and analyzes epistemic verbs EMVs dissertations linguistics literature. For this purpose, two sub-corpora Ph.D. from fields literature were constructed. concordance tool AntConc3.5.8 was used to analyse selected verbs. most frequent auxiliaries both disciplines found may, would could. Interestingly, deployed by researchers more than twice much