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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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, 2020 The present study investigates the locally situated interactional functions of so-called epistemic modals, daroo and deshoo, in Japanese conversation. Although the two forms are generally considered plain and polite variants of the same epistemic modal ...
Michiko Kaneyasu
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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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Epistemic Modals Are Assessment‐Sensitive
, 2011 John Macfarlane, Macfarlane John
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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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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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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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New Horizons for a Theory of Epistemic Modals
Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2018 Recent debate over the semantics and pragmatics of epistemic modals has focused on intuitions about cross-contextual truth-value assessments. In this paper, we advocate a different approach to evaluating theories of epistemic modals. Our strategy focuses
Justin Khoo, J. Phillips
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