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Deontic Modal Expressions

Abstract Over the past fifteen years, linguists and philosophers of language have re-examined the canonical, Kratzerian semantics for modal expressions, with special attention paid to their epistemic and deontic uses. This chapter is an overview of the literature on deontic modal expressions.
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Combinations of Tense and Deontic Modality

2004
We consider three infinite hierarchies of what I call ”two-dimensional temporal logics with explicit realization operators”, viz. (i) one without historical or deontic modalities, (ii) one with historical but without deontic modalities, and (iii) one with historical and with dyadic deontic modalities for conditional obligation and permission. Sound and
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Disjunction Under Deontic Modals: Experimental Data

2019
The meaning components of may/or and must/or sentences have been discussed intensively by a number of theoretical accounts. The debates are concerned with whether free choice inferences are part of logical meaning or scalar implicatures, and additionally, whether exhaustive inferences and exclusive or inferences are derived for may/or versus must/or ...
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Factoring Disjunction Out of Deontic Modal Puzzles

2014
Ross’s puzzle (Ross, 1941) and the paradox of Free Choice Permission (Kamp, 1973), puzzles involving disjunction under deontic operators, have received wide discussion in recent work in natural language semantics. First, I contrast two opposed modal views—call them the “box-diamond” theory and EU theory—that form two poles of the contemporary debate ...
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Intensional Logic and Semantics for Deontic Modals

2019
This chapter is a critical introduction to different (classical and non-classical) semantics for deontic modals, in particular semantics given to ‘ought’. After some methodological considerations on the role of semantic and philosophical inquiry on modality and natural language modality (Sect.
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On deontic modality, directivity, and mood: The case of Dutch mogen and moeten

Journal of Pragmatics, 2010
Jan Nuyts
exaly  

Deontic Modals

2017
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Shift of deontic modality in simultaneous interpreting

Road to the East. Journal of Chinese-Portuguese Studies
Este artigo tem por objetivo fazer uma análise semântica dos verbos modais deônticos “ter de” e “ter que”, empregados numa interpretação simultânea na Assembleia Legislativa de Macau. Para isso, recorre-se às teorias de lógica modal de Kripke (2003), Kratzer (1977) e Portner (2009), que entendem as questões de necessidade e possibilidade através da ...
Gaole, Liu, Yuqi, Sun
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The textual fit of translated EU law: a corpus-based study of deontic modality

Translator, 2014
Łucja Biel
exaly  

A BERT-based deontic logic learner

Information Processing and Management, 2023
exaly