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The Orthologic of Epistemic Modals [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical LogicMinor edits for final version forthcoming in Journal of Philosophical ...
Wesley H. Holliday, Matthew Mandelkern
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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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Semantic expressivism for epistemic modals [PDF]
Linguistics and Philosophy, 2020 AbstractExpressivists about epistemic modals deny that ‘Jane might be late’ canonically serves to express the speaker’s acceptance of a certain propositional content. Instead, they hold that it expresses a lack of acceptance (that Jane isn’t late). Prominent expressivists embrace pragmatic expressivism: the doxastic property expressed by a declarative ...
Peter Hawke, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld
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Interpreting past epistemic modals in English, Dutch, and French
GlossaAccording to many authors (Cinque 1999, Hacquard 2006, a.o.), epistemic modals in sentences such as “It had to be raining last night” always scope over past tense, expressing a present epistemic claim about a past event. However, there is no consensus on
Annemarie van Dooren, Anouk Dieuleveut
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Epistemic Modals in Hypothetical Reasoning [PDF]
, 2023 Data involving epistemic modals suggest that some classically valid argument forms, such as reductio, are invalid in natural language reasoning as they lead to modal collapses.
Aloni, M. +8 more
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The Acquisition of Epistemic Modality
Linguistic Proceedings Series, 2006 In this paper we try to contribute to the body of knowledge about the acquisition of English epistemic modal verbs (e.g. Mary may/has to be at school). Semantically, these verbs encode possibility or necessity with respect to available evidence. Prag-matically, the use of epistemic modals often gives rise to scalar conversational infer-ences (Mary may ...
Papafragou, A., Ozturk, O.
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The Orthologic of Epistemic Modals [PDF]
, 2023 Epistemic modals have peculiar logical features that are challenging to account for in a broadly classical framework. For instance, while a sentence of the form $p\wedge\Diamond\neg p$ ('$p$, but it might be that not~$p$') appears to be a ...
Holliday, Wesley Halcrow +1 more
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A cross-cultural study of hedging in discussion sections by junior and senior academic writers [PDF]
Ibérica, 2019 This study examines the employment of uncertainty marking in discussion sections written by three groups of writers: master’s dissertations written in English by Iranian and English graduate students of applied linguistics, and research article ...
Esmaeel Abdollahzadeh
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Semantics and pragmatics of the double modal ‘might could’ [PDF]
Training, Language and Culture, 2019 The paper presents an analysis of semantic and pragmatic features of the double modal ‘might could’ which proves to be the most common of combinations of modal auxiliaries observed in modern English.
Irina S. Lebedeva, Svetlana N. Orlova
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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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