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In this paper, we have investigated the scope of modal adverbs in ancient chinese. We have also described our classification of semantic category in ancient chinese modal adverbs. It can be classified into five major categories: epistemic, deontic, dynamic, judgmental and evaluative modalities. The differences between classification of modality in chinese adverbs and that in chinese auxiliary verbs are as follows:(1)The former added judgmental modality as a root category. (2)The former added evaluative modality as a root category. (3)About speaker’s degree of certainty, the former adopted a two-level system. Our semantic classification of ancient chinese adverbs does not include meanings of interrogative adverbs, exclamatory adverbs and modest and respective adverbs.
