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Author's Reply - Epistemic Modality in Context
Linguistic Discovery, 2010 Author's ...
Ferdinand de Haan
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Impersonal Modal Verbs in Middle Persian Zoroastrian [PDF]
زبان پژوهیModality is of fundamental importance in studying the structure of all languages worldwide. Providing a comprehensive definition of this notion is difficult. In general, modality expresses the speaker's point of view towards the statement in the sentence.
Narjes Sabouri, Belghis Rovshan
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Descriptive Indexicals and Epistemic Modality [PDF]
Topoi, 2015 In this paper I argue for a non-referential interpretation of some uses of indexicals embedded under epistemic modals. The so-called descriptive uses of indexicals come in several types and it is argued that those embedded within the scope of modal operators do not require non-referential interpretation, provided the modality is interpreted as ...
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Presumptive mood, factivity and epistemic indefinites in Romanian
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2014 This paper investigates the properties of the Romanian presumptive mood and the role it plays in the distribution of the epistemic indefinite vreun. We focus on the morphologically complex future-based paradigm, which includes forms based on the literary
Anamaria Falaus
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Modal-epistemic variants of Shapiro's system of epistemic arithmetic. [PDF]
Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 1994 Shapiro's Epistemic Arithmetic, EA, adds an operator, \(K\), to classical first-order arithmetic; this operator, interpreted informally as `is provable in principle', has an S4-like (Barcan-free) modal structure. First-order Heyting arithmetic, HA, can then be translated naturally into EA so that a formula \(A\) is provable in HA iff its translation is
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Les paramètres évidentiels, inférentiels et modaux appliqués à l’étude de must épistémique
Anglophonia, 2015 This study focuses on the modal and evidential values of must / devoir. The major difficulty is that evidentiality is not clearly grammaticalized neither in English nor French, unlike Amerindian languages such as Tuyuca or Bosavi.
Yves Bardière
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Lexeme 'valjda' as an exponent of epistemic modality [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u PrištiniThis paper aims to describe the functional and semantic characteristics of the word valjda in the Serbian language. Corpus examples are used as a methodological tool for comparing the lexeme valjda to its closest synonym verovatno, in terms of their ...
Stojanović Milena S. +2 more
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Modal Generalism, Modal Particularism And Explicating Epistemic And Metaphysical possibility [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2012 First, we shall scrutinize Modal Generalism and Modal Particularism, two main metaphysical approaches to modality, and recount their differences. Second, we’ll explain epistemic and metaphysical possibilities and how they are explicated at generalism ...
lotfollah nabavi +2 more
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, 2014 So far, TW frames have been employed to provide a semantics for a language of tense logic that includes a modal operator that expresses historical necessity. The operator is dened in terms of quantication over possible courses of events that satisfy a certain constraint, namely, that of being alike up to a given point.
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Evidentiality, Epistemic Modality, and Epistemic Status
International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature, 2016 The article discusses the interaction of evidentiality categories, typical of many Turkic, Finno-Ugric, Samoyed, certain Slavic, and other languages with the categories of epistemic modality, which is widely represented particularly in Germanic languages. The methodological framework of this study consists of the general philosophic, general scientific
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