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Stance modals in Chinese EFL learners' monologue tasks: A corpus-based study. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
This study investigates how Chinese tertiary-level EFL learners used modals as linguistic devices for expressing stances in spoken English. Modals convey speakers' commitment to propositions (epistemic stance) and intentions to affect reality (effective ...
Wei Wang, Haixiao Wang
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Restriction without Quantification: Embedding and Probability for Indicative Conditionals

Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 2021
Many modern theories of indicative conditionals treat them as restricted epistemic necessity modals. This view, however, faces two problems. First, indicative conditionals do not behave like necessity modals in embedded contexts, e.g., under ‘might’ and ‘
Ivano Ciardelli
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Belarusian Modals of Necessity. A Corpus-Based Analysis

Studi Slavistici, 2023
The paper presents an analysis of standard Belarusian modals of necessity, based on the Belacorpus, a corpus of contemporary written Belarusian I built in 2010.
Lidia Federica Mazzitelli
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Indicative Conditionals and Dynamic Epistemic Logic [PDF]

Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, 2017
Recent ideas about epistemic modals and indicative conditionals in formal semantics have significant overlap with ideas in modal logic and dynamic epistemic logic.
Wesley H. Holliday, Thomas F. Icard III
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Grammatical and Pragmatic Aspects of Slovenian Modality in Socially Unacceptable Facebook Comments

Slovenščina 2.0: Empirične, aplikativne in interdisciplinarne raziskave, 2023
This paper investigates the grammatical and pragmatic uses of epistemic and deontic modal expressions in a corpus of Slovenian socially acceptable and unacceptable Facebook comments.
Jakob Lenardič, Kristina Pahor de Maiti
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The use of English epistemic modality among ESL learners

Journal of Modern Languages, 2017
The acquisition of expressions of epistemic modality or the probability system seems to be a problem to second language leamers of English. While expressing basic propositions is not too difficult, second language leamers of English appear to have ...
Subra Govindasamy
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On perfect(ive) morphology above and below modals. The H-ident hypothesis

Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2018
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that temporal-aspectual morphology can only be interpretable regarding root modals. It is not interpretable with epistemic modals.
Ángeles Carrasco Gutiérrez
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A New Modal Cycle

Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2020
A new set of modals is appearing in contemporary English. The epistemic modals with perfect have are forming a new class including mighta, coulda, woulda, shoulda, and musta, when they are used with an additional have and without a (present) perfect ...
Elly van Gelderen
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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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Epistemics and attitudes

Semantics and Pragmatics, 2013
This paper investigates the distribution of epistemic modals in attitude contexts in three Romance languages, as well as their potential interaction with mood selection.
Pranav Anand, Valentine Hacquard
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