Re: Hedging

Trebor Jung wrote:

>I'm working on my logical language's system for hedging, and am having
>trouble. How do I gloss the following (this is paraphrasis)? Aren't there
>better glosses like 'technically' and 'as such'? Which match up with
which?
>
>'It is true that... even though there is every reason to think otherwise'
>'It is true that... even though there is good reason to think otherwise'
>'It is true that... even though there is reason to think otherwise'
>'It is true that... even though there is a small amount of evidence to
think
>otherwise'
>'It is true that... even though there is a tiny amount of evidence to
think
>otherwise'
>
>And what's the adjectival form of 'hedging'?
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Your examples above appear to fall more into the realm of
evidentiality/factivity than 'hedges' as originally defined by Lakoff.
Nevertheless, as for glosses for your paraphrases, I'll throw out the
following random list of possibilities, some of which may match to your
paraphrases, others not. (I'll leave the choices to you on how they might
map to each other.)

presumably/presumtively
rebuttably
theoretically
putatively
probably
purportedly
supposedly
tentatively
allegedly
apparently
really
certainly
reportedly
perhaps
maybe
(my) guess is that...
(I'll) bet that...
somehow...

I'll also list some of the actual "hedges" that Lakoff and subsequent
authors have studied (as I recall, Lakoff lists over 60 of them in his
original 1972 paper):

loosely speaking
technically speaking
strictly speaking
sort of
kind of
rather
in that
such that

As for the ajectival form of 'hedging', I'd use the same word, as in 'Here
is a list of my conlang's hedging morphemes.'