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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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The Difference Between Modal Verbs in Deontic and Epistemic Modality
Humaniora, 2012 Modality is always interesting to discuss. Understanding it is crucial for both language teachers and learners. This essay discusses the concept of modality, its types and uses.
Menik Winiharti
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La traducció de la modalitat deòntica i epistèmica del verb modal sollen en el corpus COVALT [PDF]
, 2016 This paper analyses the translations of the modal verb sollen in the corpus COVALT. First, the deontic and epistemic modality of the verb in German and Catalan are pointed out, and a taxonomy on the use of sollen is suggested ...
Guzmán Pitarch, Josep Roderic
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Okara: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra, 2017 This is a cognitive pragmatic study of the use of the items of epistemic modality in a narrative fiction. The aims of this study are to identify, analyze and describe the ways the items of epistemic modality are used. Their contextual meanings, functions,
Lalu Muhaimi +2 more
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Modalitas Epistemik -Hazu Da dan Padanannya dalam Bahasa Indonesia
Diglosia, 2023 Japanese epistemic modality can be expressed through by linguistic markers, such as adverb markers indicate the gradient or level of the speaker’s assumptions about a specific phenomenon. This study aims to investigate the epistemic modality of Japanese -
Isye Herawati, Fahri Delfariyadi
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AN ACCOUNT OF EPISTEMIC MODALITY IN SHABAKI
آداب الكوفة, 2016 The present paper aims to propose a classificatory and descriptive account of epistemic modal expressions in Shabaki to recognize their syntactic categories and semantic interpretations.
Abbas Sultan
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Epistemic modality, particles and the potential optative in Classical Greek [PDF]
, 2019 This paper challenges the commonly held view that the Classical Greek potential optative has a subjective epistemic semantics, the result of a conceptual confusion of subjectivity and epistemic modality inherited from our standard grammars.
La Roi, Ezra
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The Investigation of Grammatical Category and Syntactic Position of “t͡ʃəmɑn”, a Modality Marker in Kalhori Kurdish [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایرانModality in different languages can be expressed through different grammatical categories such as modal adjectives, modal adverbs, modal auxiliaries, and modal lexical verbs.
Tahereh Jafari, Shoja Tafakkori Rezayi
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What the Future ‘Might’ Brings [PDF]
, 2020 This paper concerns a puzzle about the interaction of epistemic modals and future tense. In cases of predictable forgetfulness, speakers cannot describe their future states of mind with epistemic modals under future tense, but promising theories of ...
Boylan, David
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Investigating the Semantic Development of Modal Markers: The Role of Context
Clotho, 2019 The article tackles the problem of studying diachronic semantic changes of modal markers in Latin. It proposes to do so by using context as a proxy for tracing the development of otherwise unchanging forms.
Tomaž Potočnik, Matej Hriberšek
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