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Quantifiers for a Modal Future
Philosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Future auxiliaries present a challenge to the classical analysis of modal expressions as existential or universal quantifiers over a contextually provided set of possible worlds: these expressions come with a distinct modal flavor, but their interaction with negation and the fact that future judgments come in degrees of confidence is ...
Malte Willer
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Metaethics and the Functions of Moral Language
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Metaethics has long included debates about the function of moral discourse. Some have argued that moral statements express our attitudes, others that they serve as prescriptions for how to act, still others that they describe moral facts or properties.
Amie L. Thomasson
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Evaluative adjectives are gradable. The standard for falling under a gradable adjective “F” is either context‐relative or absolute. Some philosophers have recently used general linguistic tests to argue that “rational” and (moral) “good” are maximum‐degree absolute gradable adjectives: Only what's perfectly morally good strictly counts as ...
Pekka Väyrynen
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The necessitive impersonal REIK(Ė)TI ‘need’: the rise of modal meaning
Lietuvių Kalba, 2017 The focus of the paper is on the frequency, distribution patterns and semantic profile of the necessitive impersonal reik(ė)ti ‘need’ in old and contemporary Lithuanian texts.
Erika Jasionytė-Mikučionienė +1 more
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Deontic Modals and Context in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter
آداب الكوفة, 2022 The present study aims at investigating the effect of context on the use of deontic modals within the first part of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, that is 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone'.
احمد الكلابي +1 more
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Modal verbs in South Asian online Englishes: must, (have) got to, have to and need to
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract This research article presents an analysis of four (semi‐)modals of necessity/obligation (must, (have) got to, have to and need to) in four CMC registers (comments, tweets, web forums and websites) originating from four South Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) along with the United Kingdom and United States.
Muhammad Shakir
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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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Evidence Sensitivity in Weak Necessity Deontic Modals [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Logic, 2013 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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The double modal construction in English world wide
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract The dual foci of the present study of double modals are their semantic characteristics and their distribution across regional varieties of English world wide. Tokens were extracted from GloWbE:Blogs, a database whose great size and informal tenor facilitated the investigation of this low‐frequency non‐standard feature. Double modals were found
Peter Collins, Adam Smith
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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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