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Comparative Legilinguistics, 2016 The aim of this article is to highlight an issue of expressing deontic modality in Finnish and Polish in a legal context in terms of deontic strength.
Joanna RYDZEWSKA-SIEMIĄTKOWSKA
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Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2021 The document titled “14 points of Wilson” was announced by the President of the United States Woodrow Wilson in his speech addressed to the United States Congress on 8th January 1918.
Matulewska Aleksandra +1 more
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What Is Wrong with Imposing Risk of Harm?
Ratio, Volume 38, Issue 4, Page 248-256, December 2025.ABSTRACT When and why is it wrong to impose a pure risk of harm on others? A pure risk of harm is a risk that fails to materialise into the harm that is threatened. It initially seems puzzling on what grounds a pure risk of harm can be wrong. There have been multiple attempts to explain the wrongness of imposing risk either by reference to the badness ...
Thomas Rowe
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Exploring Modality in Analytical Exposition Texts: A Study of Senior High School Students' Writing
Journal of Applied Linguistics and LiteratureThis study examines the application of modality in analytical exposition texts written by senior high school students, focusing on how different modalities convey ideas, judgments, and attitudes.
Siti Khairani Ritonga +2 more
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Deontic Modality in Baghdadi Arabic [PDF]
, 2019 The deontic modality – also known in the literature on the topic as speaker-oriented modality – indicates an obligation or permission imposed externally, compelling an agent to complete an action, in accordance with a corpus of pre-existent rules. In this paper, I will present an analysis of the possibilities to express the deontic modality – with its ...
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World Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 4, Page 606-623, December 2025.Abstract This study reports on data from two 6‐week virtual intercultural exchanges (VIEs) between teachers of multilingual learners in K‐12 schools in Türkiye and the United States. Using the data from these asynchronous VIEs, we focus on Turkish world Englishes speakers’ use of epistemic markers and evidentials.
Melike Uzum +4 more
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DEONTIC MODALITY IN SPEECH ACTS IN SPORTS DISCOURSE
Filolog, 2021 Palmer (1979) starts from the linguistic reality that deontic modals do not have past forms, because it is impossible to impose an obligation or give permission to someone in the past, although it is possible to report an obligation or permission that ...
Мina Z. Dragaš
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Deontic modality based on preference
, 2014 Deontic modalities are here defined in terms of the preference relation explored in our previous work (Osherson and Weinstein, 2012). Some consequences of the system are discussed.
Osherson, Daniel, Weinstein, Scott
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Predicative Possession in Ukrainian and Intra‐Slavonic Language Contact1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 428-459, November 2025.Abstract Ukrainian has two inherited syntactic forms for possessive have: a transitive one with a lexical have‐verb, and an intransitive, originally locative be‐construction. On the basis of four corpus studies, the article establishes their relative frequency in Middle Ukrainian writing (17th and 18th c.), Modern Ukrainian dialects (20th c.), and ...
Jan Fellerer
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 111, Issue 3, Page 1037-1056, November 2025.Abstract This paper introduces emergent moral non‐naturalism, which holds that moral properties depend on descriptive properties and normative bridge principles for their instantiation, where these principles specify instantiation conditions of moral properties in terms of descriptive properties.
Umut Baysan
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