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Evidencialidad y modalidad epistémica en dos variedades de toba habladas en Formosa, Argentina

Lexis, 2017
This paper analyzes morphosyntactic strategies that encode evidentiality and epistemic modality in eastern and western Toba (Formosa, Argentina), from the functional typological perspective (Chafe 1986; Bybee et al.
María Belén Carpio, Raúl Eduardo González   +1 more
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Vernacular Futurism: How Persian Language Users Imagine AI

AI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Public discourse about artificial intelligence increasingly unfolds through compressed forecasts, moral warnings, and everyday speculation circulating at platform speed. This study examines how Persian language users on X construct and contest AI futures, analyzing a corpus of 4741 posts collected between January 2023 and December 2025, with ...
Arthur Asa Berger, Ehsan Shahghasemi
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(Non)epistemic modality: English must, have to and have got to and their correspondences in Lithuanian

Kalbotyra, 2017
This paper deals with the three types of modality – epistemic, deontic and dynamic. It examines the relation between the synchronic uses of the modal auxiliary must and the semi-modals have to and have got to as well as their Lithuanian translation ...
Audronė Šolienė
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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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AI‐Based Immortality: The Ethical Advantage of the Aretai Approach

AI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The convergence of artificial intelligence, digital identity technologies, and biogerontological ambitions has produced a novel set of philosophical problems that have not yet been adequately addressed within mainstream bioethical discourse. Digital life extension—encompassing AI‐generated avatars, neural data preservation, mind uploading, and
Mirko Daniel Garasic
wiley   +1 more source

The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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Impersonal Modal Verbs in Middle Persian Zoroastrian [PDF]

زبان پژوهی
Modality 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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Embedding Epistemic Modals [PDF]

Mind, 2013
Seth Yalcin has pointed out some puzzling facts about the behaviour of epistemic modals in certain embedded contexts. For example, conditionals that begin If it is raining and it might not be raining, sound unacceptable, unlike conditionals that begin If it is raining and I don t know it, .
Dorr, C, Hawthorne, J
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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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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