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AN ACCOUNT OF EPISTEMIC MODALITY IN SHABAKI

آداب الكوفة, 2016
The present paper aims to propose a classificatory and descriptive account of epistemic modal expressions in Shabaki to recognize their syntactic categories and semantic interpretations.
Abbas Sultan
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From epistemic modality to concessivity: Alternatives and pragmatic reasoning per absurdum

Journal of Pragmatics, 2019
There is an unnoticed parallelism between what has been called the concessive future (Sara un professore universitario ma sicuramente e un idiota) 1 in the literature on some Romance languages (and Italian in particular), and what has been labeled ...
Laura Baranzini, A. Mari
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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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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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What the Future ‘Might’ Brings [PDF]

, 2020
This paper concerns a puzzle about the interaction of epistemic modals and future tense. In cases of predictable forgetfulness, speakers cannot describe their future states of mind with epistemic modals under future tense, but promising theories of ...
Boylan, David
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The semantic and structural properties of modal markers in old Lithuanian writings (the 16th century)

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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EPISTEMIC MODALITY IN TED TALKS ON EDUCATION

VNU Journal of Foreign Studies, 2019
This paper aims to investigate the epistemic markers in TED talks. The data for the study is 100 TED talks on education. The mixed method of both the quantitative and qualitative approaches was manipulated to capture the use of the linguistic means to ...
Ton Nu My Nhat, N. Minh
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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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The acquisition of epistemic modality

ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on 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).
A. Papafragou, O. Ozturk
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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 ایران
Modality 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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