(semiotics) A particular way in which the information is to be encoded for presentation to humans, i.e. to the type of sign and to the status of reality ascribed to or claimed by a sign, text or genre.
“Interestingly, the modal verb bì appears below the scope of negation and thus patterns with circumstantial modals syntactically.”
“In Section 3.1, we recalled the syntax of epistemic and deontic modals, as well as the syntax of modals when they were used lexically.”
“These preferences often serve to clarify, but a less deft handling leads to tercets like the following, their force buried under prepositions, pronouns and modals.”