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The relationship between irrealis mood and deontic modality in Paresi (Arawak)
Liames, 2018 This article presents a description and analysis of the deontic modality and its relationship with mood category (realis vs irrealis) in Paresi, a language of the Arawak family, spoken in Brazil.
Núbia Ferreira Rech +2 more
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A system for modal and deontic defeasible reasoning [PDF]
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing, 2007 Defeasible reasoning is a well-established nonmonotonic reasoning approach that has recently been combined with semantic web technologies. This paper describes modal and deontic extensions of defeasible logic, motivated by potential applications for modelling multi-agent systems and policies.
Grigoris Antoniou +2 more
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Modals with a taste of the deontic [PDF]
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2013 The aim of this paper is to present an explanation for the impact of normative considerations on people's assessment of certain seemingly purely descriptive matters concerning freedom, causation, and intentionality. The explanation is based on two main claims.
Joshua Knobe, Zoltán Gendler Szabó
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Comparative Legilinguistics, 2014 The present paper analyses the verbal expression of deontic, epistemic and performative values in the English, Italian and Spanish versions of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, a treaty of the Council of Europe which aims to ...
Mariangela COPPOLELLA
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On the Scopal Interaction of Negation and Deontic Modals [PDF]
, 2010 In this paper we argue that the different scopal relations that deontic modal auxiliaries cross-linguistically exhibit can be explained by assuming that (i) polarity effects arise in the domain of universal deontic modals and therefore not in the domain of existential deontic modals; and (ii) that all deontic modals must be interpreted VP in situ if ...
Iatridou, S., Zeijlstra, H.
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Deontic Modality Today: Introduction
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2014 [Extract] In the summer of 2013, we organized a workshop at the University of Southern California, dedicated to the topic of deontic modality, broadly construed. The articles in this issue represent contributions to that workshop.
Finlay, Stephen, Schroeder, Mark
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Impersonal Modal Verbs in Middle Persian Zoroastrian [PDF]
زبان پژوهیModality is of fundamental importance in studying the structure of all languages worldwide. Providing a comprehensive definition of this notion is difficult. In general, modality expresses the speaker's point of view towards the statement in the sentence.
Narjes Sabouri, Belghis Rovshan
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Deontic modality based on preference
CoRR, 2014 Deontic modalities are here defined in terms of the preference relation explored in our previous work (Osherson and Weinstein, 2012). Some consequences of the system are discussed.
Daniel N. Osherson, Scott Weinstein
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Scaling deontic modality in parliamentary discourse [PDF]
Logos et Littera: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Text, 2016 In the paper we apply the scalarity principle to deontic modality and classify it into strong, medium and weak, with the ends of the spectrum suggesting the highest and the lowest degrees of imposition and necessity. We study the two extremes, the strong
Milica Vuković Stamatović
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KalbotyraA shift from evaluation (‘it is good, fitting’, etc.) to deontic modality is well known from the literature on grammaticalization. This article looks at it from the viewpoint of complementation.
Axel Holvoet
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