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The Expression of Epistemic Modality

2014
This chapter provides an overview of how epistemic modal meanings are expressed in the languages of the world. It first presents a survey of different types of epistemic modal expressions. Then some examples of morphosyntactic systems of epistemic modality are given.
K. Boye
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Evidentials and Epistemic Modality

2018
AbstractThis chapter deals with the relation between the notional domains of information source and epistemic modality. It surveys various approaches to this relation and the cross-linguistic patterns of the way in which linguistic units (of diverse formats) with evidential or epistemic meanings develop extensions whereby they encroach into each other ...
B. Wiemer
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Markers of epistemic modality and their origins

Studies About Languages, 2020
Native deaf signers express epistemic modality by different means: mental-state words, clause-internal particles, signs indicating hypothesis, and nonmanually.
E. Engberg-Pedersen
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An Update on Epistemic Modals [PDF]

open access: possibleJournal of Philosophical Logic, 2015
Epistemic modals are a prominent topic in the literature on natural language semantics, with wide-ranging implications for issues in philosophy of language and philosophical logic. Considerations about the role that epistemic might and must play in discourse and reasoning have led to the development of several important alternatives to classical ...
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Closure and Epistemic Modals

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2017
According to a popular closure principle for epistemic justification, if one is justified in believing each of the premises in set Φ and one comes to believe thatψon the basis of competently deducingψfrom Φ—while retaining justified beliefs in the premises—then one is justified in believing thatψ.
Tamar Lando, Justin Bledin
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The expression of epistemic modality in Ewe

Africana Linguistica, 2012
Cet article présente une étude descriptive des moyens d’exprimer la modalité épistémique en ewe parlé standard (Kwa, Niger-Congo).
Gbegble, Nada, Nuyts, Jan
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The indexical character of epistemic modality

Linguistics and Philosophy, 2023
Craige Roberts
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