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Language and Dialogue, 2013 In recent years, the standard account of epistemic modal discourse has been criticized from two directions. Expressivists and dynamic semanticists argue that simple epistemic modal sentences should be understood as non-truth-conditional. Relativists hold that the truth values of epistemic modal sentences are determined by the features of their contexts
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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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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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Expectation Biases and Context Management with Negative Polar Questions [PDF]
, 2019 This paper examines distinctive discourse properties of preposed negative 'yes/no' questions (NPQs), such as 'Isn’t Jane coming too?'. Unlike with other 'yes/no' questions, using an NPQ '∼p?' invariably conveys a bias toward a particular answer, where ...
Silk, Alex
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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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Tense and modality in the nominal domain
Linguistica, 2016 It is well discussed in the literature that epistemic modals (Mod epis) are base-generated higher than Tense (T), while non-epistemic/root modals (Mod root) are base-generated lower than T, and that high modals are evaluated in the context of the speech ...
Negin Ilkhanipour
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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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Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1980 This paper is an attempt to characterize the meaning difference between can and may as epistemic modals. Based on some interesting differences of these modals in their syntactic behavior, negation and past formation, the paper claims that the crucial ...
Oh, Choon-Kyu, Seibel, Charles
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What the Future ‘Might’ Brings [PDF]
, 2020 This paper concerns a puzzle about the interaction of epistemic modals and future tense. In cases of predictable forgetfulness, speakers cannot describe their future states of mind with epistemic modals under future tense, but promising theories of ...
Boylan, David
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Epistemic stance without epistemic modals: the case of the presumptive future
, 2019 This paper deals with the non-temporal use of the future in Italian known as ‘epistemic’ or ‘presumptive’ (PF) in declaratives and interrogatives. We first distinguish PF from epistemic necessity and possibility, as well as from weak necessity modals ...
Michela Ippolito, D. Farkas
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