Table 1 Examples of lexical surface realizations of hedging
Feature Type | Examples |
|---|---|
Modal auxiliaries | may, might, could, would, should |
Epistemic judgment verbs | suggest, indicate, speculate, believe, assume |
Epistemic evidential verbs | appear, seem |
Epistemic deductive verbs | conclude, infer, deduce |
Epistemic adjectives | likely, probable, possible |
Epistemic adverbs | probably, possibly, perhaps, generally |
Epistemic nouns | possibility, suggestion |