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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 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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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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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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Epistemic modals, deduction, and factivity: new insights from the epistemic future
, 2019 The epistemic future (e.g., the epistemic uses of English will) is often analyzed on a par with epistemic must. We provide novel empirical evidence from English and Romanian in deduction and factive contexts to argue that this identical treatment is not ...
Teodora Mihoc +2 more
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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).
Anand Jayprakash Vaidya +1 more
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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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