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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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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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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 +1 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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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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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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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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No Guide to Ground: Right‐Making and Right‐Makers
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It is often taken for granted that right‐makers, that is, the things that make something—say, an action—right, do so by explaining why it is right. This view can be spelled out in terms of metaphysical ground: right‐making just is grounding of rightness facts.
Singa Behrens
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