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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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Epistemic modality in MA dissertations. [PDF]
, 2005 This paper reports on the compilation, and ongoing mark up and annotation, of a corpus of MA dissertations written by students at the Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University.
McEnery, Tony, Gabrielatos, Costas
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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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Epistemic Modality and Coordination under Uncertainty [PDF]
Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, 2021 Communication facilitates coordination, but coordination might fail if there's too much uncertainty. I discuss a scenario in which vagueness-driven uncertainty undermines the possibility of publicly sharing a belief. I then show that asserting an epistemic modal sentence, 'Might p', can reveal the speaker's uncertainty, and that this may improve the ...
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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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Ignorance, introspection, and epistemic modals [PDF]
, 2020 Embedded epistemic modals are infelicitous under desire predicates when they are anchored to the belief state of the attitude holder. We present two ways of deriving this observation from an independently motivated property of desire predicates, their ...
Trinh, Tue, Crnič, Luka
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Epistemic modals and context: Experimental data
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2014 Recently, a number of theorists (MacFarlane (2003, 2011), Egan, Hawthorne & Weatherson (2005), Egan (2007), Stephenson (2007a,b)) have argued that an adequate semantics and pragmatics for epistemic modals calls for some technical notion of relativist ...
Joshua Knobe, Seth Yalcin
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A Two-Dimensional Semantics for Epistemic Modals
Philosophia Scientiæ, 2012 Not everyone knows that water is H2O. Suppose Alice is one of those people. Alice says: "For all I know, water might not be H2O." Intuitively it seems like Alice has spoken truly. That is, it seems like it is epistemically possible (for Alice) that water
Dan Quattrone
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The epistemology of modality and the problem of modal epistemic friction [PDF]
Synthese, 2018 AbstractThere are three theories in the epistemology of modality that have received sustained attention over the past 20 years (1998–2018): conceivability-theory, counterfactual-theory, and deduction-theory. In this paper we argue that all three face what we callthe problem of modal epistemic friction(PMEF).
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Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1980 This descriptive study focuses on the special verbal category of Alsatian modal auxiliaries with distinct syntactic characteristics. They include:[kena] (can), [mesda] (would like to), [vela] (want to), [darfa] (be allowed to), [sola] (ought to/must ...
Hessini, Marguerite
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