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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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The Orthologic of Epistemic Modals

Journal of Philosophical Logic
Minor edits for final version forthcoming in Journal of Philosophical ...
Wesley H. Holliday, Matthew Mandelkern
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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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A Problem about Permission and Possibility [PDF]

, 2018
This chapter explores the prospects for a unified theory of deontic and (socalled) epistemic modality. A theory of deontic modality needs to solve the puzzles raised by David Lewis in 'A Puzzle About Permission'.
Yablo, Stephen
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MODAL VALUES OF VERBAL FORMS IN THE EUROPEAN CHARTER FOR REGIONAL OR MINORITY LANGUAGES. A LINGUISTIC COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH, ITALIAN AND SPANISH VERSIONS

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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Certainty and Subjectivity in English Education Research: A Cross Cultural Systemic Functional Analysis

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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Epistemic modality in MA dissertations. [PDF]

, 2005
This paper reports on the compilation, and ongoing mark up and annotation, of a corpus of MA dissertations written by students at the Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University.
McEnery, Tony, Gabrielatos, Costas, Gabrielatos, Costas; id_orcid   +2 more
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LLM‐Integrated Human–Robot Interaction System for Microrobots

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This paper proposes an LLM‐based control framework for guiding microrobots using human natural language. This framework can convert the natural human speech into safe and executable command sets for reliable navigation in complex environments. The experimental results show high accuracy and robustness in task performance, demonstrating the potential of
Bairong Zhu, Amar Salehi, Tingting Yu
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Conceivability, Apriority and Modality [PDF]

, 2011
I aim to understand whether apriority entails necessity, aposteriority entails contingency and conceivability entails possibility; that is, the relationship between, and the nature of, rationality and modality.
WINSTANLEY, PAUL
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A More Explicit Framework for Evaluating Objectivity and (Inter)Subjectivity in Modality Domain [PDF]

, 2018
In this paper we propose a more explicit framework for definition and evaluation of objectivity and (inter)subjectivity in the modality domain. In the proposed operational framework, we make a basic distinction between the modality notions that serve an ...
Mahabadi, Dariush Nejadansari, Gholamreza Medadian, Dariush Nejadansari Mahabadi, Medadian, Gholamreza   +3 more
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