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Ambiguität in kritischen Kontexten: Der lexical split des deutschen Modalverbs dürfte / Ambiguity in Critical Contexts: The Lexical Split of the German Modal dürfte [PDF]

Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław
The present-day German modal verb dürfen (‘to be allowed to do sth’) is currently undergoing a lexical split in its grammaticalisation. In the subjunctive II, dürfte, it is developing into an epistemic marker of phoric non-factuality used to express a ...
Katja Politt
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Evidentiality, Epistemic Modality, and Epistemic Status

International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature, 2016
The article discusses the interaction of evidentiality categories, typical of many Turkic, Finno-Ugric, Samoyed, certain Slavic, and other languages with the categories of epistemic modality, which is widely represented particularly in Germanic languages. The methodological framework of this study consists of the general philosophic, general scientific
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The Expression of Certainty in Live Streaming: A Comparative Analysis of Epistemic Stance Between Professional Streamers and College Students

SAGE Open
Epistemic stance is adopted as an approach to convey the speakers’ certainty about knowledge and beliefs. This research aims to make a comprehensive comparison between professional live streamers and Chinese college students in terms of epistemic stance ...
Shuang Wang
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The degree of grammaticalization of gotta, gonna, wanna and better: A corpus study

Topics in Linguistics, 2015
The paper studies the degree of grammaticalization of the structures gotta, gonna, wanna and better. The study presumes that the semantics of these structures – more precisely their modal polyfunctionality (i.e.
Machová Dagmar
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Perfect and Imperfect Modals in Romance Some syntactic remarks on the Tense/Modality interaction

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2008
This paper addresses the interplay between Tense-Aspect and Modality in Romanian and some Romance languages, in ambiguous sentences that exhibit what has been called “perfective raising”.
Elena Soare
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Gradable epistemic modals, probability, and scale structure

, 2010
The epistemic modals possible, probable, likely, and certain require a semantics which explains their behavior both as modal operators and as gradable adjectives.
Daniel Lassiter
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On the semantics and pragmatics of epistemic vocabulary

Semantics and Pragmatics, 2015
This paper motivates and develops a novel semantics for several epistemic expressions, including possibility and necessity modals and indicative conditionals. The semantics I defend constitutes an alternative to standard truth conditional theories, as it
Sarah Moss
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A contrastive analysis of epistemic modality in scientific English

Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos, 2015
This paper investigates the use of epistemic expressions in scientific English. The main aim of this research is to analyse if native speakers of English use epistemic modality in the same way than non-native speakers of English and to detect the most ...
María Luisa Carrió Pastor
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Modals and perfect morphology

Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2018
This paper argues for a correlation between the distribution and interpretation of sequences in which perfect morphology is realized on a modal verb, on the one hand, and the semantics of perfect morphology, more precisely the stage reached by present ...
Brenda Laca
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The Pragmatics of Insensitive Assessments

The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 2010
In assessing the veridicality of utterances, we normally seem to assess the satisfaction of conditions that the speaker had been concerned to get right in making the utterance.
Alexander Almér, Gunnar Björnsson
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