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Translating Deontic Modality: Semantic and Formal Convergences and Discrepancies
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and SemanticsModality is a challenging phenomenon for translators since languages have modality systems that differ in terms of the degree of grammaticalization. The article aims to analyze and summarize strategies used in translating deontic modal operators from ...
Olga A. Boginskaya
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A modal logic for reasoning on consistency and completeness of regulations [PDF]
, 2009 In this paper, we deal with regulations that may exist in multi-agent systems in order to regulate agent behaviour and we discuss two properties of regulations, that is consistency and completeness.
Cholvy, Laurence +2 more
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How generics obscure the logic of conditionals
Mind &Language, EarlyView.This paper discusses counter‐examples to modus ponens and modus tollens involving modals and quantificational adverbs, and presents new counter‐examples with generic conditionals. We argue that the counter‐examples are spurious, and are explained by the domain‐restricting effects of if‐clauses.
Daniel Lassiter +3 more
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Comparative Legilinguistics, 2009 This paper deals with the methods of expressing deontic modality in statutory instruments. The author analyzes three pure meanings that is to say; (i) obligation, (ii) prohibition and (iii) permission.
Aleksandra MATULEWSKA
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Exploring Male and Female Voices through Epistemic Modality and Evidentiality in Some Modern English Travel Texts on the Canaries [PDF]
, 2012 This article describes authorial voice through evidential and epistemic sentential devices in a corpus of 19th and early 20th century travel texts. The corpus contains four works written by female travellers and the other four by men.
Alonso-Almeida, Francisco +1 more
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The Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates the pedagogical impact of integrating cognitive linguistics (CL) into concept‐based language instruction (C‐BLI) for teaching English modal verbs. Eighty‐nine Mandarin‐speaking university learners were assigned to one of three instructional conditions: C‐BLI with CL‐based conceptualizations (C‐BLI‐CL), C‐BLI with non‐CL
Helen Zhao, James P. Lantolf
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Grammaticalization, polysemy and iterated modality: the case of should.
Corela, 2007 This article addresses the question of iterated modality from the twofold perspective of grammaticalization and polysemy through the semantic description of various uses of should in contemporary English, and more particularly that of “meditative-polemic
Viviane Arigne
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JAVANESE LANGUAGE MODALITY IN BLENCONG ARTICLES OF SUARA MERDEKA NEWSPAPER [PDF]
, 2011 Many languages have modalities which are usually expressed through certain modal verbs. By analyzing the modal verbs, the varying degrees of commitment to or belief in a proposition can be explained. Javanese language also has such modal system.
Nina , Setyaningsih
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MODALNOŚĆ EPISTEMICZNA – ANALIZA KORPUSOWA WYKŁADNIKÓW MODALNOŚCI EPISTEMICZNEJ W WYROKACH UNIJNYCH I KRAJOWYCH [PDF]
, 2019 The aim of this paper is to establish the repertoire and distribution of verbal and adverbial exponents of epistemic modality in English- and Polish-language judgments passed by the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) and non-translated judgments passed by
KOŹBIAŁ, Dariusz
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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, and shows how these extensions can bbe used for modelling multi-agent systems and policies.
Grigoris Antoniou +2 more
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