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Epistemic modals in early Modern English history texts. Analysis of gender variation

Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas, 2018
In the present study, samples of late Modern English scientific texts have been analysed to evaluate cases of epistemic modality as realised by modal verbs.
Francisco J. Álvarez Gil
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If they must, they will: Children overcommit to likeliness inferences from deontic modals

Glossa, 2022
Modal verbs like must express two distinct non-actual meanings: deontic (e.g. obligation) and epistemic (e.g. likelihood inference). How do young children understand these modals? What factors affect their interpretation as deontic or epistemic?
Ailís Cournane, Dunja Veselinović
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Modal-epistemic variants of Shapiro's system of epistemic arithmetic. [PDF]

Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 1994
Shapiro's Epistemic Arithmetic, EA, adds an operator, \(K\), to classical first-order arithmetic; this operator, interpreted informally as `is provable in principle', has an S4-like (Barcan-free) modal structure. First-order Heyting arithmetic, HA, can then be translated naturally into EA so that a formula \(A\) is provable in HA iff its translation is
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Embedding epistemic modals in English: A corpus-based study

Semantics and Pragmatics, 2012
The question of whether epistemic modals contribute to the truth conditions of the sentences they appear in is a matter of active debate in the literature.
Valentine Hacquard, Alexis Wellwood
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Existential Belief and Epistemic Modals

, 2022
The thesis, based on Močnik (2019a,b,c), proposes a new semantics for epistemic modals and doxastic attitudes, based on the behaviour of epistemic modals embedded under doxastic attitudes.
Močnik, Maša
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Constraints on the embeddability of epistemic modals [PDF]

, 2019
In this paper I investigate occurrences of epistemic modals such as must and might embedded under three classes of attitude verbs: (i) doxastic and doxastic-like verbs like believe, (ii) desiderative verbs like want, and (iii) emotive doxastic and ...
Ippolito, Michela
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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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Descriptive Indexicals and Epistemic Modality [PDF]

Topoi, 2015
In this paper I argue for a non-referential interpretation of some uses of indexicals embedded under epistemic modals. The so-called descriptive uses of indexicals come in several types and it is argued that those embedded within the scope of modal operators do not require non-referential interpretation, provided the modality is interpreted as ...
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From simple predicators to clausal functors : The english modals through time and the primitives of modality [PDF]

, 2013
The ultimate goal of this paper is to find a representation of modality compatible with some basic conditions on the syntax-semantic interface. Such conditions are anchored, for instance, in Chomsky's (1995) principle of full interpretation (FI ...
Gergel, Remus
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LLM‐Integrated Human–Robot Interaction System for Microrobots

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This paper proposes an LLM‐based control framework for guiding microrobots using human natural language. This framework can convert the natural human speech into safe and executable command sets for reliable navigation in complex environments. The experimental results show high accuracy and robustness in task performance, demonstrating the potential of
Bairong Zhu, Amar Salehi, Tingting Yu
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