Anatomy of a Modal

What do we convey with ()? We somehow manage to say at least the following: going to the North End is (part of ) a way of finding good cheese and going to the North End is relatively easy. Furthermore, we are leaving it open whether there are other places (in Boston) to get good cheese, that is, with () we are not claiming that the North End is the only place to find good cheese. At first glance at least, () seems to say that going to the North End is enough or sufficient to find good cheese, so we will call the construction in () that combines only and have to the S M C (SMC). We will later see that at least in the incarnation in (), the construction expresses something just a little short of sufficiency, but we will stick with our name for it anyway.

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