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'''Agent-oriented modality''' is a subtype of [[modality]] in which conditions on the agent play a role (e.g. ability, obligation).

===Comments===
Bybee, Perkins, and Pagliuca (1994: 176-181) divide modality into four main types: agent-oriented modality, [[speaker-oriented modality]], [[epistemic modality]], and [[subordinate modality]]. Agent-oriented modality “reports the existence of internal and external conditions on an agent with respect to the completion of the action” (1994: 177). 

===Reference===
{{:Bybee et al. 1994}}

===Other languages===
German [[Agens-orientierte Modalität]]

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