Greek non-negative min, epistemic modality, and positive bias

Abstract Modern Greek displays two variants of the word min ; one corresponds to a negative marker, and other an epistemic modal. We focus on latter provide, for first time our knowledge, experimental evidence its exact interpretation, showing that (i) non-negative is incompatible with overt realization polar propositional alternatives { p ,¬ }, (ii) it conveys medium speaker certainty respect expressed proposition , (iii) encodes bias in favor . Our findings support novel generalization uniformly interpreted as conveying neither unbiased nor negatively biased (as suggested by previous literature topic), but positively argue modal needs be licensed external non-veridical operator.