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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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Cognitive LinguisticsThis psycholinguistic study investigates the effects of aspect (i.e., the grammatical distinction between progressive and simple) on the interpretation of English modals (epistemic versus deontic) with a view to gaining insights into the mental ...
Sazhumyan Haykanush +1 more
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Epistemic Future and epistemic modal verbs in Portuguese
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2020 This paper discusses the semantics of two epistemic operators in Portuguese: the epistemic Future and modal verbs. The idea sustained in the literature for other languages that the epistemic Future has the same semantics as the modal verb (equivalent to) MUST does not account for the Portuguese data.
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Semantics and Pragmatics, 2010 How do ordinary indicative conditionals manage to convey conditional information, information about what might or must be if such-and-such is or turns out to be the case?
Anthony S Gillies
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Presumptive mood, factivity and epistemic indefinites in Romanian
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2014 This paper investigates the properties of the Romanian presumptive mood and the role it plays in the distribution of the epistemic indefinite vreun. We focus on the morphologically complex future-based paradigm, which includes forms based on the literary
Anamaria Falaus
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Hedging modal adverbs in Slovenian academic discourse
Slovenščina 2.0: Empirične, aplikativne in interdisciplinarne raziskave, 2021 This paper first presents a comparative analysis of modal adverbs in doctoral theses in the humanities and social sciences on the one hand, and in natural and technical sciences on the other from the 1.7-billion-token corpus of Slovenian academic texts ...
Jakob Lenardič, Darja Fišer
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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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Some considerations on the semi-modal auxiliary verbs [PDF]
Journal of Social Sciences, 2019 This paper deals with the livelised cost of electricity from gaseous biofuels, such as biogas and bio-syngas, produced from biodegradable waste, using different technologies (internal combustion engines, gas turbine, fuel cells) at different capacities ...
CIUMACENCO, Valentina
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