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Knowledge of Objective 'Oughts': Monotonicity and the New Miners Puzzle [PDF]
, 2021 In the classic Miners case, an agent subjectively ought to do what they know is objectively wrong. This case shows that the subjective and objective ‘oughts’ are somewhat independent. But there remains a powerful intuition that the guidance of objective ‘
Ahmed A. +17 more
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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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Stance-taking in Spanish-speaking Preschoolers' Argumentative Interaction [PDF]
, 2019 The aim of this study is to determine what linguistic resources are used for stance-taking in confrontational interactions. For this purpose, we analyze 70 argumentative sequences in spontaneous peer conversations during play situations of 4 dyads (2 mid
Migdalek, Maia Julieta +2 more
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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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MODALITAS KALIMAT PADA ANTOLOGI CERITA PENDEK LUKISAN KALIGRAFI KARYA A. MUSTOFA BISRI [PDF]
Retorika, 2018 Modality Sentence in Short Story Anthology Lukisan Kaligrafi By A. Mustofa Bisri. The aim of this research is to describe about modality sentence as a way to uncover A. Mustofa Bisri's style in short story anthology Lukisan Kaligrafi.
Imeylda Afyolanda +2 more
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Between the historical languages and the reconstructed language : an alternative approach to the Gerundive + “Dative of Agent” construction in Indo-European [PDF]
, 2017 It is argued by Hettrich (1990) that the “dative of agent” construction in the Indo-European languages most likely continues a construction inherited from Proto-Indo-European.
Barddal, Johanna +2 more
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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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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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How to Complete Regulations in Multi-agent Systems [PDF]
, 2009 In this paper, we deal with regulations that may exist in multiagent systems in order to regulate agent behaviour. More precisely, we discuss two properties of regulations, consistency and ompleteness.
Cholvy, Laurence +2 more
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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