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Court judgments serve as important precedents for future judicial decision-making in common law systems. The legal meanings of judgments are conveyed by specific linguistic devices, among which epistemic modality plays an important role in indicating the
Yanfang Su +2 more
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Norm Conflicts and Epistemic Modals
Statements containing epistemic modals (e.g., "by spring 2023 most European countries may have the Covid-19 pandemic under control") are common expressions of epistemic uncertainty. In this paper, previous published findings (Knobe & Yalcin, 2014; Khoo & Phillips, 2018) on the opposition between Contextualism and Relativism for epistemic modals are re ...
Niels Skovgaard-Olsen, John Cantwell
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Epistemic Future and epistemic modal verbs in Portuguese
This paper discusses the semantics of two epistemic operators in Portuguese: the epistemic Future and modal verbs. The idea sustained in the literature for other languages that the epistemic Future has the same semantics as the modal verb (equivalent to)
Rui Marques
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Epistemic Modality: A Corpus-Based Analysis of Epistemic Markers in EU and Polish Judgments [PDF]
The aim of this paper is to establish the repertoire and distribution of verbal and adverbial exponents of epistemic modality in English- and Polish-language judgments passed by the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) and non-translated judgments passed by
Koźbiał Dariusz
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The article presents the results of the empirical study aimed at revealing epistemic modality realization in utterances with the verb would in English publicistic texts of analytical political articles.
А. N. Morozova, Yu. V. Karaulshchikova
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Epistemic Modality in Georgian
The epistemic modality consists of epistemic possibility and necessity. Particle “Unda” (must) is the main formative of the epistemic necessity. Originating from a notional verb, it still retains its verbal functions.
Nino Sharashenidze
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Weak and Strong Necessity Modals: On Linguistic Means of Expressing "A Primitive Concept OUGHT" [PDF]
This paper develops an account of the meaning of `ought', and the distinction between weak necessity modals (`ought', `should') and strong necessity modals (`must', `have to').
Silk, Alex
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Appellative Constructions with Epistemic Modality Predicates
The object of the study is parenthetical constructions, represented in the language by three types — modal, reflexive and appellative. Modal introductory constructions denote the modal status of a proposition.
E. R. Ioanesyan
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Embedding Epistemic Modals [PDF]
Seth Yalcin has pointed out some puzzling facts about the behaviour of epistemic modals in certain embedded contexts. For example, conditionals that begin If it is raining and it might not be raining, sound unacceptable, unlike conditionals that begin If it is raining and I don t know it, .
Dorr, C, Hawthorne, J
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