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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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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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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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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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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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Exploring Male and Female Voices through Epistemic Modality and Evidentiality in Some Modern English Travel Texts on the Canaries [PDF]
, 2012 This article describes authorial voice through evidential and epistemic sentential devices in a corpus of 19th and early 20th century travel texts. The corpus contains four works written by female travellers and the other four by men.
Alonso-Almeida, Francisco +1 more
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“We believe in democracy…”: Epistemic Modality in Justin Trudeau’s Political Speeches
Jurnal Humaniora, 2019 This article investigates epistemic modality in political discourse. It focuses on modality markers in terms of their word classes, semantic meanings and discourse functions in political speeches.
Tofan Dwi Hardjanto, Nala Mazia
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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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Epistemic modality, particles and the potential optative in Classical Greek
Journal of Greek Linguistics, 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.
Ezra la Roi
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