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Appellative Constructions with Epistemic Modality Predicates
Научный диалог, 2023 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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Epistemic Modality in Georgian
Verbum, 2015 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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The Acquisition of Epistemic Modality
Linguistic Proceedings Series, 2006 In this paper we try to contribute to the body of knowledge about the acquisition of English epistemic modal verbs (e.g. Mary may/has to be at school). Semantically, these verbs encode possibility or necessity with respect to available evidence. Prag-matically, the use of epistemic modals often gives rise to scalar conversational infer-ences (Mary may ...
Papafragou, A., Ozturk, O.
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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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Russian child-addressed speech: epistemic modality [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. ФилологияThe phenomenon of child-directed speech (input) is discussed in this paper. The study examines the qualitative and quantitative aspects of epistemic input based on Russian longitudinal corpora of approximately 5,000 adult utterances transcribed and ...
Victoria Кazakovskaya
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The expression of certainty and uncertainty in Italian speaking children
Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica, 2014 Epistemic modality expresses the speaker’s attitude of certainty/uncertainty toward the fact/event mentioned in the proposition. In conversation, the use of epistemic modality informs the listener on how much s/he should rely on the pieceof information ...
Maria Silvia Barbieri
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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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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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A probabilistic semantics for modal QAD in standard Arabic
Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2023 Gradable Epistemic Modals (GEMs) such as certain or likely have been analyzed to have the semantics of gradable adjectives, which constrain their epistemic modality.
Abdel-Rahman Abu Helal
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