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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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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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A Modal Logic of Epistemic Games [PDF]
Games, 2010 We propose some variants of a multi-modal of joint action, preference and knowledge that support reasoning about epistemic games in strategic form. The first part of the paper deals with games with complete information. We first provide syntactic proofs of some well-known theorems in the area of interactive epistemology that specify some sufficient ...
Emiliano Lorini +1 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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The acquisition of epistemic modality
Proceedings of International Conferences of Experimental Linguistics, 2019 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. Pragmatically, the use of epistemic modals often gives rise to scalar conversational inferences (Mary may be
Papafragou, A., Ozturk, O.
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