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Ontology of sentential moods [PDF]
In this paper ontological implications of the Barcan formula and its converse will be discussed at the conceptual and technical level. The thesis that will be defended is that sentential moods are not ontologically neutral since the rejection of ...
Žarnić, Berislav
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Modal Verb Usage in Tourism Discourse
The present contribution examines the use of modal verbs in specialised tourism discourse, with a focus on the Verona Corpus. Modal verbs play a crucial role in expressing modality and conveying information about necessity, possibility, and permission ...
Francesca Poli
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Norvegų kalbos modalinių veiksmažodžių semantika. The semantics of the Norwegian modal auxiliary verbs [PDF]
In this paper, I have tried to show that the meanings of Modern Norwegian modal verbs may best be described in terms of gradable scales (clines) both with respect to epistemic and non-epistemic modality.Epistemic modality deals with the degree of ...
Ugnius Mikučionis
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A corpus-based study of modal verbs in Chinese-English governmental press conference interpreting. [PDF]
Zhang Y, Cheung AKF.
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Logic-Based Specification Languages for Intelligent Software Agents
The research field of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) aims to find abstractions, languages, methodologies and toolkits for modeling, verifying, validating and prototyping complex applications conceptualized as Multiagent Systems (MASs). A very
Martelli, Maurizio +2 more
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DEONTIC MODALITY AND MODALS IN THE LANGUAGE OF CONTRACTS
The purpose of this paper is to present most typical methods of expressing deontic modality, namely obligation, prohibition and permission in Polish, American and British contracts. The author has analyzed the corpora of about 45 contracts formulated in British-English, American-English and Polish, namely: (i) deeds of conveyance, (ii) contracts of ...
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Editorial: The Grammar-Body Interface in Social Interaction. [PDF]
Pekarek Doehler S, Keevallik L, Li X.
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Deontic ‘cocktail’ according to E. Mally’s receipt [PDF]
In 1926, Ernst Mally, an Austrian logician, has introduced a system of deontic logic in which he has proposed three fundamental distinctions which proved to be important in the context of the further development of the logic of norms.
Elena, Lisanyuk
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‘Ought’-contextualism beyond the parochial [PDF]
Despite increasing prominence, ‘ought’-contextualism is regarded with suspicion by most metaethicists. As I’ll argue, however, contextualism is a very weak claim, that every metaethicist can sign up to.
Worsnip, Alex
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"We don't normally require that in other contexts, do we": Interpersonal meanings of tag questions in British university seminars based on the BASE corpus. [PDF]
Wei L, Leung AH, Sun Y.
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