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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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Comparative Legilinguistics, 2014 The present paper analyses the verbal expression of deontic, epistemic and performative values in the English, Italian and Spanish versions of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, a treaty of the Council of Europe which aims to ...
Mariangela COPPOLELLA
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Topoi, 2016 At the center of the debate between contextualist versus relativist semantics for epistemic modal claims is an empirical question about when competent subjects judge epistemic modal disagreement to be present. John MacFarlane’s relativist claims that we judge there to be epistemic modal disagreement across the widest range of cases.
Jonah Katz, Joe Salerno
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Journal of Languages and Language Teaching, 2022 This study examines the use of epistemic modality (expressions that signal varying degrees of certainty and subjectivity) by writers of English education research.
May Mahdi Alramadan
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Particules/adverbes exprimant la modalité épistémique : Vers la comparaison des systèmes des langues tchèque et française // Articles/adverbs expressing epistemic modality : towards the comparison of Czech and French language systems [PDF]
Svět Literatury, 2015 Epistemic modality represents one of the linguistic modality expressing the speaker’s certainty evaluation of the proposition’s validity. The French and Czech approaches are compared to show the common bases for this linguistic matter.
Michaela Vybíhalová
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Epistemic and Deontic Modality in Romanian and Serbian Scientific Discourse
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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Strong epistemic modality in parliamentary discourse
Open Linguistics, 2014 Sounding convincing in order to convince ‒ this simple strategy seems to come in handy for politicians trying to win over the electorate. Strong epistemic modality, which allows politicians to express a great degree of commitment to the truth of the ...
Vukovic Milica
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La evidencialidad y la modalidad epistémica en los sermones católicos en español
Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2014 Epistemic modality indicates the degree of certainty or doubt a speaker has for the proposition expressed by their utterance. Evidentiality, on the other hand, is the indication of the kind of evidence for a statement in question.
Małgorzata Wielgosz
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Evidencialidad y modalidad epistémica en dos variedades de toba habladas en Formosa, Argentina
Lexis, 2017 This paper analyzes morphosyntactic strategies that encode evidentiality and epistemic modality in eastern and western Toba (Formosa, Argentina), from the functional typological perspective (Chafe 1986; Bybee et al.
María Belén Carpio +1 more
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Kalbotyra, 2017 This paper deals with the three types of modality – epistemic, deontic and dynamic. It examines the relation between the synchronic uses of the modal auxiliary must and the semi-modals have to and have got to as well as their Lithuanian translation ...
Audronė Šolienė
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