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The acquisition of epistemic modality
Proceedings of International Conferences of Experimental Linguistics, 2019 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. Pragmatically, the use of epistemic modals often gives rise to scalar conversational inferences (Mary may be
Papafragou, A., Ozturk, O.
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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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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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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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Lietuvių Kalba, 2016 The present study examines the expression of modality in the 16th century texts of Old Lithuanian, namely in Jonas Bretkūnas’ Postilė (1591) and Mikalojus Daukša’s Postilė (1599).
Erika Jasionytė-Mikučionienė
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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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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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The epistemology of modality and the problem of modal epistemic friction [PDF]
Synthese, 2018 AbstractThere are three theories in the epistemology of modality that have received sustained attention over the past 20 years (1998–2018): conceivability-theory, counterfactual-theory, and deduction-theory. In this paper we argue that all three face what we callthe problem of modal epistemic friction(PMEF).
Anand Jayprakash Vaidya +1 more
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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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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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