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"Ought" and Error [PDF]

, 2020
The moral error theory generally does not receive good press in metaethics. This paper adds to the bad news. In contrast to other critics, though, I do not attack error theorists’ characteristic thesis that no moral assertion is ever true.
Tiefensee, Christine
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Curious Legal Conditionals [PDF]

, 2011
The paper examines the use of the modal verb SHALL in the if clauses of conditionals found in legal English. The study traces the history of such usages and compares them to two uses of WILL attested in the same grammatical environment: a temporal use ...
Berezowski, Leszek
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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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Exploring Modality in Analytical Exposition Texts: A Study of Senior High School Students' Writing

Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literature
This 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, T. Silvana Sinar, T. Thyrhaya Zein   +2 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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Creating a Female Space Within Neo‐Nazi Movements: The British Movement's Women's Section in Flintshire

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
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Two Uummarmiutun modals – including a brief comparison with Utkuhikšalingmiutut cognates [PDF]

, 2017
The paper is concerned with the meaning of two modal postbases in Uummarmiutun, hungnaq ‘probably’ and ȓukȓau ‘should’. Uummarmiutun is an Inuktut dialect spoken in the Western Arctic.
Berthelin, Signe Rix
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