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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 ایرانModality 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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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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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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Epistemic modality in political discourse [PDF]
, 2017 By analyzing the statements of the US president Bush, the British PM Blair and other members of their administration, the aim of this paper is to show how politicians use epistemic modality to express their assumptions or the truth of the way they ...
Milkovich, M., Sitarica, A.
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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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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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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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Epistemic modality and focus in Dutch
Linguistics, 1999 This paper reports on a controlled data elicitation experiment investigating the role of information structure in the use of epistemic modal expression forms in Dutch. Specifically, it investigates the effect of focality versus nonfocality of an epistemic modal evaluation of Dutch speakers' selection of a number of alternative expression types for ...
Nuyts, Jan, Vonk, Wietske
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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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On objective and subjective epistemic modality again
Studies in Language Companion Series, 2018 This aim of this chapter is to prove the linguistic reality of the distinction be-tween objective and subjective epistemic modality as made in FDG, according to which the former modifies the Episode and the latter the Propositional Content.
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