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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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Weak and Strong Necessity Modals: On Linguistic Means of Expressing "A Primitive Concept OUGHT" [PDF]
, 2022 This paper develops an account of the meaning of `ought', and the distinction between weak necessity modals (`ought', `should') and strong necessity modals (`must', `have to').
Silk, Alex
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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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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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Norm Conflicts and Epistemic Modals
Cognitive Psychology, 2023 Statements containing epistemic modals (e.g., "by spring 2023 most European countries may have the Covid-19 pandemic under control") are common expressions of epistemic uncertainty. In this paper, previous published findings (Knobe & Yalcin, 2014; Khoo & Phillips, 2018) on the opposition between Contextualism and Relativism for epistemic modals are re ...
Niels Skovgaard-Olsen, John Cantwell
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Figuring Out Root and Epistemic Uses of Modals: The Role of the Input
Journal of Semantics, 2022 This paper investigates how children figure out that modals like must can be used to express both epistemic and “root” (i.e. non epistemic) flavors. The existing acquisition literature shows that children produce modals with epistemic meanings up to a ...
Annemarie van Dooren +3 more
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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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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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