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If they must, they will: Children overcommit to likeliness inferences from deontic modals
Modal verbs like must express two distinct non-actual meanings: deontic (e.g. obligation) and epistemic (e.g. likelihood inference). How do young children understand these modals? What factors affect their interpretation as deontic or epistemic?
Ailís Cournane, Dunja Veselinović
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A Contrastive Study of Deontic Modality in Parallel Texts
This article is a contrastive study of deontic modal markers in three parallel texts. It analyses the modality system in the English, Russian and French texts of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights accounting for the ambiguity of some English ...
Olga Boginskaya
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Deontic Modality in Lithuanian Translations of EU Legislation
The present article is a corpus-driven investigation into deontic modality in the Lithuanian translations of EU legislation. It builds on the data of the EUR-Lex2/2016 parallel corpus. The article discusses the pivotal points of deontic modality and its
Žygimantas Pekūnas
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O času a způsobu modálních sloves v italštině ve srovnání s angličtinou [PDF]
The article deals with Italian and English modal auxiliaries, considered as non-grammatical competitors of grammatical means, i.e. the verbal mood, acting as indicators of different modal meanings.
Eva Klímová
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EXISTENCE OF NORMS OF LAW AS A PROBLEM IN DEONTIC LOGIC
Problem setting. The existence of the rule of law as a problem of deontic logic is defined in the plane of logical and ontological problems of law, its origin is connected with the Jorgensen dilemma. The study of legal norms as existing established their
Олена Миколаївна Юркевич
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‘Good’ Is ‘Possible’: A Case Study of the Modal Uses of ‘Good’ in Shaoxing
This paper sets out to investigate the modal uses of the lexeme hɒ3 ‘good’ in the Jidong Shaoxing variety of Wu and to reconstruct its grammaticalization pathway. Modal meanings of hɒ3 include circumstantial possibility, deontic possibility and necessity,
Shanshan Lü, Xiao Huang
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Deontic Concepts and Their Clash in Mīmāṃsā: Towards an Interpretation
The article offers an overview of the deontic theory developed by the philosophical school of Mīm aṃs a, which is, and has been since the last centuries BCE, the main source of normative concepts in Sanskrit thought.
E. Freschi, Matteo Pascucci
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Defeasible Deontic Logic in Answer Set Programming
We present a brief overview of the Domain Specific Language L4 and provide a defeasible semantics of it based on the Answer Set Programming encoding of Defeasible Deontic ...
Guido Governatori
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Deontic Reasoning Across Contexts [PDF]
Contrastivism about `ought' holds that `ought' claims are relativized, at least implicitly, to sets of mutually exclusive but not necessarily jointly exhaustive alternatives.
Snedegar, Justin, Justin Snedegar
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Downgrading Deontic Authority in Open Dialogue Reflection Proposals: A Conversation Analysis.
The Open Dialogue approach promotes collaboration with clients and families in decisions about the direction of therapy. This creates potential problems for Open Dialogue therapists who seek collaboration but also have responsibility for managing the ...
Ben Ong, Scott Barnes, N. Buus
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