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Epistemic and Deontic Modality in Romanian and Serbian Scientific Discourse

Romanian Journal of English Studies, 2021
Modal verbs expressing epistemic and deontic modality can be used as discourse markers to implicate the authors’ attitude to the propositional content (doubt, certainty, hedging).
Novakov Predrag, Lazović Mihaela
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Evaluation as a Source of Deontic Modality

Critique and Semiotics, 2022
The present article discusses various types of the interaction of deontic modality and evaluation, based on the semantic shift “good → necessary”. Our source data are constructions with German modal verbs and their Russian translation models containing an evaluative component. Evaluative lexical units appear in translation mainly in place of the German
Dmitrij O. Dobrovol'skij, Anna A. Zalizniak   +1 more
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Deontic modals and hyperintensionality

Logic Journal of the IGPL, 2019
Abstract In this paper I argue that deontic modals are hyperintensional, i.e. logically equivalent contents cannot be substituted in their scope. I give two arguments, one deductive and the other abductive. First, I show that the contrary thesis (that deontic modals are not hyperintensional) leads to falsity; second, I argue that a ...
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Negation, Polarity, and Deontic Modals [PDF]

Linguistic Inquiry, 2013
Universal deontic modals may vary with respect to whether they scope over or under negation. For instance, English modals like must and should take wide scope with respect to negation; modals like have to and need to take narrow scope. Similar patterns have been attested in other languages.
Iatridou, Sabine, Zeijlstra, Hedde
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(Non)epistemic modality: English must, have to and have got to and their correspondences in Lithuanian

Kalbotyra, 2017
This paper deals with the three types of modality – epistemic, deontic and dynamic. It examines the relation between the synchronic uses of the modal auxiliary must and the semi-modals have to and have got to as well as their Lithuanian translation ...
Audronė Šolienė
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DEONTIC MODALITY AND MODALS IN THE LANGUAGE OF CONTRACTS

Comparative Legilinguistics, 2017
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.
Aleksandra MATULEWSKA
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O času a způsobu modálních sloves v italštině ve srovnání s angličtinou [PDF]

Časopis pro Moderní Filologii, 2020
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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Investigating the Semantic Development of Modal Markers: The Role of Context

Clotho, 2019
The article tackles the problem of studying diachronic semantic changes of modal markers in Latin. It proposes to do so by using context as a proxy for tracing the development of otherwise unchanging forms.
Tomaž Potočnik, Matej Hriberšek
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A Corpus-Based Analysis of Deontic Modality of Obligation and Prohibition in Arabic/English Constitutions

Estudios de Traducción, 2020
It is argued that legal language should be formal, precise and clear to avoid ambiguity and/or misunderstanding. As rights and duties are communicated through modals, clarity and precision in drafting and translating them is crucial. Otherwise, there is
Hanem El-Farahaty, Abdelhamid Elewa
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A PARAMETRIC DESCRIPTION OF DEONTIC MODALITY IN THE POLISH AND SPANISH CIVIL CODES

Comparative Legilinguistics, 2013
The article presents a parameter-based method of description of deontic modality in the Polish and Spanish civil codes. The described units are clauses conveying deontic meanings: obligativity, prohibitivity, permissivity and immunitivity.
Joanna NOWAK-MICHALSKA
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