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Language as a mechanism for reasoning about possibilities. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2022 Grigoroglou M, Ganea PA.
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Young children's understanding of the epistemic and deontic meanings of ask and tell. [PDF]
J Exp Child Psychol, 2022 Wylie BE +4 more
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What embedded counterfactuals tell us about the semantics of attitudes. [PDF]
Linguist Vanguard, 2022 Haslinger N, Schmitt V.
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Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos, 2015 This paper describes the use of perhaps, maybe and possibly in a cross- disciplinary corpus of academic and popularised scientific writing. It accounts for their higher frequency in popularised discourse by investigating their functions in detail.
Elsa Pic, Grégory Furmaniak
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Epistemic Modality in Georgian
Verbum, 2015 The epistemic modality consists of epistemic possibility and necessity. Particle “Unda” (must) is the main formative of the epistemic necessity. Originating from a notional verb, it still retains its verbal functions. In the conjugation of an object, “Unda” is the III person form. It means “wish”, “want”.
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, 2005 Abstract In the 1970s David Lewis argued for a contextualist treatment of modals (Lewis, 1976, 1979a). Although Lewis was primarily interested in modals connected with freedom and metaphysical possibility, his arguments for contextualism could easily be taken to support contextualism about epistemic modals.
Egan, Andy +2 more
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A large-scale comparison of human-written versus ChatGPT-generated essays. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2023 Herbold S +4 more
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Epistemic Modality and Non-Epistemic Modality in Modal Auxiliaries
Epistemic Modality and Non-Epistemic Modality in Modal Auxiliaries私達が発話をする際には、概ね、聞き手に対して何らかの影響を与えようとしていると言って良いが、それは、しばしば聞き手にとって直接的過ぎたり、話者の主観的な振る舞いをしている。それらの陳述緩和の作用を果たす要素の一つが法助動詞の使用である。本論文においては、法助動詞が特定のコンテクストにおいて、どのような役割を果たしているのかを考察する。
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A corpus-based study on Chinese and American students' rhetorical moves and stance features in dissertation abstracts. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2022 Liu Y, Hu X, Liu J.
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Necessity, Norm and Missing Knowledge: What Modals Tell Us About Crisis Response in German COVID-19 Reporting. [PDF]
Z Literaturwissenschaft Linguist, 2021 Müller M.
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