Linguistic modality

grammatical feature of verbs, used for signaling modality

feature of language that allows for communicating things about, or based on, situations which need not be actual

type of verb that caries modal meaning, such as "might"

conditional with a false "if" clause

sentence expressing factual implications, or a hypothetical situation and its consequences

some particular way in which information is to be encoded for presentation to humans, in semiotics

modality in linguistics

grammatical construction