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Semi-Lexical Heads in Czech Modal Structures [PDF]

, 2008
A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the University of Wolverhampton for the degree of Doctor of PhilosophyThis thesis argues for a semi-lexical interpretation of Czech modal verbs. It demonstrates that Czech modals participate
Kyncl, Jaroslav
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Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi, Casianus Gemoh, Denise Chapman, Edmund Hypolite, Simon Angok, Melanie Baak, Joel Windle   +6 more
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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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Força e evidência: uma análise teórico experimental da semântica de 'pode', 'deve' e 'tem que' [PDF]

, 2015
Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística, Florianópolis, 2015.Esta tese descreve um estudo teórico-experimental sobre o significado dos verbos  pode ,  deveÂ
Santos, Ana Lúcia Pessotto dos
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

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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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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Constraints on the embeddability of epistemic modals

, 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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Navigating Whiteness in Australia's Anti‐Racism Movement: A Duoethnographic Inquiry by Women of Colour Scholars

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
wiley   +1 more source

Epistemic modals and perfective have [PDF]

, 2005
Epistemic modals are used to convey judgments about the probability of an event (cf. Palmer 1990: 50f). In Present-Day New Zealand English, epistemic utterances that concern past events usually contain a ‘perfective’ have that follows the modal ...
Quinn, H.
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