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Certainly but not certain: The expression of subjective and objective probability

Glossa, 2022
This paper investigates the interpretation of the epistemic modal adjectives possible, certain and their adverbial counterparts possibly, certainly, taking the perspective that the former express objective modality, whereas the latter express subjective ...
Anton Benz, Kazuko Yatsushiro, Manfred Krifka, Marzena Żygis, Stephanie Solt, Tue Trinh   +5 more
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Interpreting past epistemic modals in English, Dutch, and French

Glossa
According to many authors (Cinque 1999, Hacquard 2006, a.o.), epistemic modals in sentences such as “It had to be raining last night” always scope over past tense, expressing a present epistemic claim about a past event. However, there is no consensus on
Annemarie van Dooren, Anouk Dieuleveut
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Epistemic Modals, Qualitative Probability, and Nonstandard Probability

Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium, 2013
Yalcin [23] shows that Kratzers model [5] does not validate some intuitively valid inferences and validates some intuitively invalid ones. He adopts a model based directly on a probability measure.
S. Suzuki
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Measure semantics and qualitative semantics for epistemic modals

, 2013
In this paper, we explore semantics for comparative epistemic modals that avoid the entailment problems shown by Yalcin (2006, 2009, 2010) to result from Kratzer’s (1991) semantics.
W. Holliday, Thomas F. Icard
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Modal-Epistemic Arithmetic and the problem of quantifying in [PDF]

Synthese, 2012
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Epistemic Modals

Abstract This chapter develops an inferential expressivist account of epistemic modality. The chapter begins by showing that while a traditional expressivist approach accounts for certain well-known puzzles about the semantics of epistemic modality, it falls prey to a version of the Frege-Geach Problem.
Luca Incurvati, Julian J. Schlöder
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(Non)epistemic modality: English must, have to and have got to and their correspondences in Lithuanian

Kalbotyra, 2017
This paper deals with the three types of modality – epistemic, deontic and dynamic. It examines the relation between the synchronic uses of the modal auxiliary must and the semi-modals have to and have got to as well as their Lithuanian translation ...
Audronė Šolienė
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The semantic and structural properties of modal markers in old Lithuanian writings (the 16th century)

Lietuvių Kalba, 2016
The present study examines the expression of modality in the 16th century texts of Old Lithuanian, namely in Jonas Bretkūnas’ Postilė (1591) and Mikalojus Daukša’s Postilė (1599).
Erika Jasionytė-Mikučionienė
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An Account Of Epistemic Modality In Shabaki

آداب الكوفة, 2016
The present paper aims to propose a classificatory and descriptive account of epistemic modal expressions in Shabaki to recognize their syntactic categories and semantic interpretations. The corpus is based on the data excerpted from everyday communication.
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COGNITIVE CONSEQUENCES OF TRANSLATIONS FOR RENDERING THE MODALITY OF LEGAL DOCUMENTS (A SEMANTIC STUDY BASED ON THE AMSTERDAM TREATY AS AN EXAMPLE)

Comparative Legilinguistics, 2009
This study aims at examining how the manifestation forms of linguistic modality, which plays a rule-constitutive role in the content of legal documents, may be changed in the process of translation. Basing on the achievements of cognitive linguistics the
Wanda WAKUŁA-KUNZ
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