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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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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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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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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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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 modals: QUDs and stakes
, 2023 In the semantics literature on epistemic modals, there has been a recent trend towards using psycholinguistic data to inform semantic theories of epistemic modals.
Ahmad Jabbar, Judith Degen
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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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Embedding Epistemic Modals [PDF]
, 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 ...
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