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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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La traducció de la modalitat deòntica i epistèmica del verb modal sollen en el corpus COVALT [PDF]
, 2016 This paper analyses the translations of the modal verb sollen in the corpus COVALT. First, the deontic and epistemic modality of the verb in German and Catalan are pointed out, and a taxonomy on the use of sollen is suggested ...
Guzmán Pitarch, Josep Roderic
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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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Obligation as permission : a sound and strongly complete axiomatization [PDF]
, 2016 In (Anglbergeret al., 2015, Section 4.1), a deontic logic is proposed which explicates the idea that a formulaφis obligatory if and only if it is (semantically speaking) the weakest permission.
Van De Putte, Frederik
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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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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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Adaptive logic characterizations of input/output logic [PDF]
, 2016 We translate unconstrained and constrained input/output logics as introduced by Makinson and van der Torre to modal logics, using adaptive logics for the constrained case. The resulting reformulation has some additional benefits. First, we obtain a proof-
Beirlaen, Mathieu +2 more
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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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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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Computing Strong and Weak Permissions in Defeasible Logic [PDF]
, 2012 In this paper we propose an extension of Defeasible Logic to represent and compute three concepts of defeasible permission. In particular, we discuss different types of explicit permissive norms that work as exceptions to opposite obligations.
Governatori, Guido +3 more
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