possibility

Antonym(s)

Sources

• NASH 1968 27 (capability), 186

  NASH, Rose. (1968) Multilingual Lexicon of Linguistics and Philology: English, Russian, German, French. Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Press. 

• QUIRK etal. 1985 221-223 (also "epistemic possibility"), 233 (tentative possibility)

  QUIRK, Randolph, GREENBAUM, Sidney, LEECH, Geoffrey, & SVARTNIK, Jan. (1985) A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London: Longman.

• LYONS 1971 308

  LYONS, John. (1971) Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics. Cambridge: University Press. 

• ELL 2518 (deontic possibility, epistemic possibility)

  The Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics. (1994) Oxford: Pergamon Press.

• BYBEE etal. 1994 179-180

  BYBEE, Joan, PERKINS, Revere & PAGLIUCA William (1994) The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World. Chicago : Univ. of Chicago.