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DEONTIC MODALITY AND MODALS IN THE LANGUAGE OF CONTRACTS

Comparative Legilinguistics, 2016
The purpose of this paper is to present most typical methods of expressing deontic modality, namely obligation, prohibition and permission in Polish, American and British contracts. The author has analyzed the corpora of about 45 contracts formulated in British-English, American-English and Polish, namely: (i) deeds of conveyance, (ii) contracts of ...
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Il congiuntivo nell’italiano scritto e parlato [PDF]

Echo des Etudes Romanes, 2015
The article deals with the usage of the subjunctive in contemporary Italian against the background of the grammatical rules that determine its usage in standard Italian.
Klímová Eva
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The Modal Particle "-ā", a New Member of Modal Elements in Persian Language [PDF]

زبان پژوهی
Introduction Modality, as a language category that reflects the attitudes of language speakers toward the possibility or necessity of the proposition in an utterance, is encoded by either free or bound morphological elements.
Morteza Dastlan
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Interpretative Models of Legal Language

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The interpretative process of legal language is an activity aimed at reconstructing the mental representation of meaning. According to juridical linguistics, correct understanding of legal language requires more than mere linguistic skills: it needs ...
Olga V. Kobzeva
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The deontic modal ity in the opinion piece: illocutionary force regulated by the enunciative context

Cadernos de Letras da UFF, 2013
This article emerges from the need to propose a description of deontic elements considering their performance in the opinion text, particularly in the opinion piece genre.
Alcione Tereza Corbari
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Norvegų kalbos modalinių veiksmažodžių semantika. The semantics of the Norwegian modal auxiliary verbs [PDF]

Kalbotyra, 2007
In this paper, I have tried to show that the meanings of Modern Norwegian modal verbs may best be described in terms of gradable scales (clines) both with respect to epistemic and non-epistemic modality.Epistemic modality deals with the degree of ...
Ugnius Mikučionis
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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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Deontic modality in tourism scientific writing

Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos
Este artículo se centra en los verbos modales deónticos que aparecen en un corpus de artículos de investigación sobre turismo. La originalidad de este estudio radica principalmente en la selección de dos secciones fundamentales del artículo de ...
Elena Domínguez Morales, Isabel Soto Déniz   +1 more
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Modal Verb Usage in Tourism Discourse

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The present contribution examines the use of modal verbs in specialised tourism discourse, with a focus on the Verona Corpus. Modal verbs play a crucial role in expressing modality and conveying information about necessity, possibility, and permission ...
Francesca Poli
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Disentangling Deontic Positions and Abilities: a Modal Analysis. [PDF]

, 2020
Computational systems are traditionally approached from control-oriented perspectives; however, as soon as we move from central- ized to decentralized computational infrastructures, direct control needs to be replaced by distributed coordination mechanisms that are on par with institutional constructs observable in human societies (contracts ...
Sileno, G., Pascucci, M.
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