ON FACTUAL MAY
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This paper discusses the semantic and pragmatic characteristics of"factual may"(e.g., He may be a professor, but he sure is dumb). After examining Sweetser's (1990) and Papafragou's (2000) analyses, I first argue that factual may occurs before unexpected clauses and the two clauses are linked by"concessives, "such as but or however and that its occurrence is further restricted with respect to the preceding context. Then, I argue (against Sweetser and Papafragou) that this may is neither an extension of deontic may nor the same as epistemic may; I present an alternative analysis based on Papafragou's basic meaning of may, in which factual may concerns not only the speaker's beliefs but also the addressee's beliefs. Finally, I argue that factual may has a"procedural" function in discourse.
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