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Epistemic and Deontic Modality in Romanian and Serbian Scientific Discourse [PDF]
Romanian Journal of English Studies, 2021 Modal verbs expressing epistemic and deontic modality can be used as discourse markers to implicate the authors’ attitude to the propositional content (doubt, certainty, hedging).
Novakov Predrag, Lazović Mihaela
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Expressions of epistemic modality in Mainland Scandinavian [PDF]
, 2012 In dit proefschrift wordt een vergelijkende corpusstudie naar het ontstaan van epistemische uitdrukkingen beschreven en geanalyseerd in relatie tot verschillende typen taalverandering, te weten lexicalisatie, grammaticaIisatie en pragmaticaJisatie.
Beijering, Karin,
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Author's Reply - Epistemic Modality in Context
Linguistic Discovery, 2010 Author's ...
Ferdinand de Haan
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The Orthologic of Epistemic Modals [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Logic, 2022 Minor edits for final version forthcoming in Journal of Philosophical ...
Wesley H. Holliday, Matthew Mandelkern
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Means of Expression of Epistemic Modality in Russian Political Discourse
Respectus Philologicus, 2019 This paper discusses the means of epistemic modality used in Russian political discourse. Russian political leaders most often use epistemic modal adverbs and mental state predicates in their speeches for hedging purposes.
Živilė Nemickienė
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Binding bound variables in epistemic contexts [PDF]
, 2021 Quine insisted that the satisfaction of an open modalised formula by an object depends on how that object is described. Kripke's ‘objectual’ interpretation of quantified modal logic, whereby variables are rigid, is commonly thought to avoid these Quinean
Rabern, Brian
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Semantic expressivism for epistemic modals [PDF]
Linguistics and Philosophy, 2020 AbstractExpressivists about epistemic modals deny that ‘Jane might be late’ canonically serves to express the speaker’s acceptance of a certain propositional content. Instead, they hold that it expresses a lack of acceptance (that Jane isn’t late). Prominent expressivists embrace pragmatic expressivism: the doxastic property expressed by a declarative ...
Peter Hawke, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld
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Acquisition of epistemic marking in Estonian and Russian
Eesti Rakenduslingvistika Ühingu Aastaraamat, 2016 The article compares the acquisition of epistemic modality in typologically different languages, Estonian and Russian. The longitudinal data of 4 children was used to analyse the first emergence and the further development of lexical markers expressing ...
Viktoria V. Kazakovskaya, Reili Argus
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What is the ‘Future’ of Greek? Towards a Pragmatic Analysis [PDF]
, 2014 The paper investigates the problems related to futurity and modality in modern Greek. The discussion of Greek temporal future expressions is conducted with reference to relevant literature from the areas of English linguistics, cognitive studies and ...
Chiou, Michael
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Language and Dialogue, 2013 In recent years, the standard account of epistemic modal discourse has been criticized from two directions. Expressivists and dynamic semanticists argue that simple epistemic modal sentences should be understood as non-truth-conditional. Relativists hold that the truth values of epistemic modal sentences are determined by the features of their contexts
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