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Epistemic modality and evidentiality in virtual intercultural exchanges between Turkish and Texan users of English

open access: yesWorld 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
wiley   +1 more source

Predicative Possession in Ukrainian and Intra‐Slavonic Language Contact1

open access: yesTransactions 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
wiley   +1 more source

Emergent moral non‐naturalism

open access: yesPhilosophy 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
wiley   +1 more source

Conversational Scorekeeping

open access: yesPhilosophy Compass, Volume 20, Issue 10, October 2025.
ABSTRACT Recent philosophy of language has seen a growing interest in what is often called the dynamics of conversation or conversational scorekeeping, that is, the ways in which speech and context mutually interact in the course of a conversation.
Lars Dänzer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modality in Modern Hebrew: A Preliminary Attempt To Account for Epistemic and Deontic Interpretations

open access: yesKansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1980
Several aspects of the modality system in Modern Hebrew are examined. In general, Hebrew modal expressions are found to be unambiguous as to epistemic and deontic interpretations.
Dromi, Esther
doaj   +1 more source

Using the institutional grammar to understand collective resource management in a heterogenous cooperative facing external shocks

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, Volume 19, Issue 4, Page 979-993, October 2025.
Abstract Worker cooperatives in the gig economy can involve large and heterogeneous memberships, which makes them vulnerable to member opportunism depleting collective resources. External shocks may present another challenge for collective resource management.
Damion Jonathan Bunders, Tine De Moor
wiley   +1 more source

Language, culture and society: Modality, face and societal logic

open access: yesGlobe, 2023
It is common to distinguish between individualistic cultures typically associated with Western countries and collectivistic cultures normally linked to Asian countries.
Per Durst-Andersen
doaj  

Modal Auxiliaries in Sorani Kurdish [PDF]

open access: yesمطالعات زبان‌‌ها و گویش‌های غرب ایران, 2013
“Modality is concerned with the status of the proposition that describes the event” (Palmer, 2001: 1). This grammatical category is common to every language, shown by the help of some grammatical or lexical elements such as mood, auxiliaries, clitics ...
Roonak Moradi
doaj  

Logical Analogies: Interpretations, Oppositions, and Probabilism

open access: yesPhilosophies, 2019
I present two logical systems to show the “analogy of proportionality„ common to several interpretations: modality (necessity and possibility), quantification, truth-functional relations, moral attitudes (deontic logic), states of knowledge ...
Walter Redmond
doaj   +1 more source

Young children's understanding of the epistemic and deontic meanings of ask and tell. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Exp Child Psychol, 2022
Wylie BE   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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