Multi-layered semantic annotation and the formalisation of annotation schemas for the investigation of modality in a Latin corpus

Modal markers in co-occurrence: a study on Terence's comedies

“…The portion of text to which a marker refers, and which (usually) describes a SoA, is called scope. The definition of modality and the theoretical framework adopted for this study are borrowed from the WoPoss project (Dell'Oro et al 2020;Dell'Oro 2023;Bermúdez-Sabel et al 2024), which draws on the functional approach described by Nuyts (2016). The project aims at studying the diachrony of modality in Latin by annotating modal passages in a diachronic Latin corpus, and in order to meet this goal, it has developed a fine-grained 1 This work is a by-product of my doctoral thesis, in which I investigate the co-occurrence of modal markers at the sentence level in a corpus of classical Latin texts.…”