Human thoughts, attitudes, opinions, habits and beliefs are expressed through language and this is called modality. Modality can denote possibility, need, obligation, permission, desire, ability, and similar spirits. Modality is a study of language that expresses the speaker’s opinion or proposition in a subjective manner. The form of modality can be in the form of predicate, phrase, clause, or part of a sentence.
Although indeterminacy appears to refer to an uncertain meaning in the study of natural language though it has not been addressed by previous studies in modality. Ambiguity or indeterminacy in the implied definition of the modality is addressed in this study along with viewing and elaborating on semantic and syntactic analysis. The Fuzzy Sets Theory (Coates, 1983) has been applied to this study to categorize member to non-member meaning sets. This work is intended to assist language scholars in conducting a corpus-based approach in semantic and syntactic analysis of the modality in Filipino. The semantic and syntactic study of modality in Filipino greatly contributes to the study of language structure per se.

Authors:
Niña Lilia Javier, Bulacan State University, Philippines

About the Presenter(s)
Mr Niña Lilia Javier is a University Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer at Bulacan State University in Philippines

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