“…For instance, (18b) can be uttered when the speaker simply "hears" the sound of Toto's car. Unlike this, if (18a) is uttered in a situation where Toto somehow could not see anything at all, e.g., due to an illness, a blackout, and so on, the sentence 12 Most of the existing discussions on pota examine it from the perspectives of grammaticalization and its historical development based on its semantico-pragmatic properties, while its syntax has not received much attention (Ho 1999, Kim 2020, Kwon 2012, Kwon 2018, Rhee 2001, Sohn 2012. In this paper, I focus on the parallelism between sembrare and pota and consider its implications.…”