The aim of this study is to analyse the ordering of the epistemic modal adverbials (assertive, almost-assertive and hedges) in spoken European Portuguese. In ligth of the Theory of Functional Grammar (Dik, 1997). In Functional Grammar theory, epistemic adverbials are called propositional satellites which express some judgement of the speaker in relation to propositional content. For the analysis of the epistemic modal adverbials ordering in European Portuguese, data from the Projeto Português Fundamental, developed by Universidade de Lisboa were used (the data consists of 40 interviews). The following (possible) positions where the satellite can position in the superficial structure of the sentence were considered: 1 (initial), 2, S (genera...