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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 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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Religion Compass, Volume 20, Issue 2, March/April 2026.ABSTRACT In September 1976, British Tidings, a publication of the Neo‐Nazi political organisation, BM, announced they were to begin a women's division. Their Headquarter was based in Queensferry, Flintshire, North Wales; on the cusp of the English border.
Katherine Niamh McCoubrey
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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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The practicality of moral language and dynamic descriptivism
Mind &Language, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 158-176, February 2026.When speakers make moral claims, they often indicate that they are themselves committed to, or aim to commit their addressee to, certain actions or attitudes. The way that moral language is practical in these ways is often considered to be detrimental for any descriptivist semantics of moral language.
Stina Björkholm
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Ability as dependence modality
Noûs, Volume 59, Issue 4, Page 1126-1152, December 2025.Abstract Some modal expressions in language—for example, “can” and “able”—describe what is possible in light of someone's abilities. Ability modals are obviously related to other modalities in language, such as epistemic or deontic modality, but also give rise to anomalies that make them unique.
Paolo Santorio
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The Ubiquity of Higher‐Order Defeat
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 106, Issue 4, Page 231-241, December 2025.ABSTRACT Evidence for cognitive impairment—say, by bias or hypoxia—can defeat the epistemic permissibility of belief. This paper argues that such higher‐order defeat is an instance of a more basic normative phenomenon: whenever the permissibility of one's belief is defeated, it is defeated by an epistemic reason to withhold belief that is provided by ...
Sebastian Schmidt
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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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Intersubjective strategies in deontic modality: evidential functions of Spanish deber ‘must’
Kalbotyra, 2017 The principal aim of this study is to examine the Spanish modal verb deber ‘must’ in its deontic readings, relating it to the notions of evidentiality and intersubjectivity.
Miriam Thegel
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SAGE Open, 2020 Using a trilingual parallel corpus, this article investigates the translation of Chinese political speeches in Italian and English, with the aim to explore cross-linguistic variations regarding translation shifts of key functional elements in the genre ...
Yu Danni
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