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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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On the Substitution of Identicals in Counterfactual Reasoning [PDF]
, 2020 It is widely held that counterfactuals, unlike attitude ascriptions, preserve the referential transparency of their constituents, i.e., that counterfactuals validate the substitution of identicals when their constituents do.
Alonso‐Ovalle Luis +11 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Grounded in principles of epistemic justice, this article examines the educational impacts of Zambia's COVID‐19 school closures on Indigenous girls in two districts and highlights community‐led pathways for resilience. National responses prioritised broadcast and digital delivery but presupposed access to electricity, digital devices and ...
Marcellus Forh Mbah +5 more
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Two Uummarmiutun modals – including a brief comparison with Utkuhikšalingmiutut cognates [PDF]
, 2017 The paper is concerned with the meaning of two modal postbases in Uummarmiutun, hungnaq ‘probably’ and ȓukȓau ‘should’. Uummarmiutun is an Inuktut dialect spoken in the Western Arctic.
Berthelin, Signe Rix
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A Systemic Model for Understanding Business Interactions With Biodiversity and Ecosystems
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation represent critical threats to human well‐being and economic resilience, challenging businesses to understand and manage their interdependence with natural systems. This study develops a systemic framework—the BioModel—that elucidates the reciprocal relationship between businesses, biodiversity, and ...
Lino Cinquini +2 more
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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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SENTENCE ADVERBIALS AND EVIDENTIALITY [PDF]
, 2013 The paper deals with expressions of evidence (originating in perception, inference or reported information) and their role in sentence/utterance pragmatic modification.
Hirschová, Milada
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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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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Reaching global net‐zero targets has become an urgent priority as businesses and nations face increasing pressure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Achieving carbon neutrality in manufacturing supply chains requires comprehensive systemic changes across business processes.
Vimal K. E. K. +5 more
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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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