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Key question: Considering Deutscher's evolutionary linguistic work The Unfolding of Language… how can 'destructive' and 'constructive forces' explain the origins and developments of periphrastic modals in English? Descriptive title:... more
Orientation is a well known property of some adverbs in English. Early approaches to the topic simply offered a systematisation of paraphrase relations between these adverbs and the corresponding adjectives. Current cognitive and Event... more
The paper reviews the frequent use of the modal verb saka + da-construction in the Macedonian language, using examples from the contemporary Macedonian literature, from “Golemata voda” (“The Great Water”) by Zhivko Chingo in which the... more
We use non-Kripkean quasi-matrix semantics for the formalization of the systems S 3d , S 3dp and S 3dq of deontic logic. The system S 3d is weaker than the standard logic SDL. The semantics for S 3dp represents combination of quasi-matrix... more
This case study aims to compare the manner in which bilingual Serbian authors use evidential strategies in academic journal papers written in English and Serbian. Based on the results of manual corpus analysis, it can be concluded that... more
This article examines evidentiality as a complex and debated concept in linguistics. While scholars disagree on whether evidentiality is a grammatical or lexical category, there is consensus that its core function is to indicate the... more
Most research regarding Mauritian Creole future marking was carried out in the 1990s and assumed differences in 'certainty' dictated the choice of future marker (Baker 1993; Hazaël-Massieux 1993; Touchard & Véronique 1993). The consensus... more
España se ha convertido en los últimos años en uno de los principales países receptores de solicitudes de asilo en el mundo. En este sensible ámbito del asilo y refugio, la traducción y la interpretación constituyen instrumentos... more
In the current literature on TAM categories in European languages, and more specifically in Spanish, the notion of evidentiality has been introduced as a potential new category, more or less linked to modality, in the study of the verbal... more
Honoryfikatywność (jap. keigo ang. honorifics) wymieniana jest w pod ręcznikach gramatyki i opracowaniach językoznawczych jako jedna z charakte rystycznych cech języka japońskiego. Kategoria tapojmowana tylko i wyłącznie jako zbiór... more
Данная статья носит историографический характер и посвящена тому, какие источники ученые выделяют в кондаках святого Романа, используемых и ныне в византийском богослужении. В ходе обзора были выделены следующие источники, обнаруженные... more
This article focuses on deontic modal verbs found in a corpus of tourism research papers. The originality of this study lies mainly in the selection of two fundamental sections of the research article for its reception and impact as a... more
In the current literature on TAM categories in European languages, and more specifically in Spanish, the notion of evidentiality has been introduced as a potential new category, more or less linked to modality, in the study of the verbal... more
Resumo: Este trabalho tem por objetivo a investigação do verbo modal poder, a partir de uma abordagem sincrônica, de maneira a descrever seus usos e a demonstrar como o modal teria passado por um processo gradiente de expansão... more
This theoretical paper snaps a picture of contemporary language simplification tendency easy to spot in various texts, in specialized discourses included. The omnipresent low-maintenance operations on both style and wordstock of... more
The article covers the issue of borrowings in the Latin text of M. V. Lomonosov’s Panegyricus Elisabetae. Since M. V. Lomonosov received an excellent education at the Slavic Greek Latin Academy, where he became acquainted with the works... more
In this paper I derive a concept of the categorical good by making use of the new gradable adjective semantics for the word "good." Gradable adjective semantics is a product of contemporary formal linguistic semantics. The English... more
This paper argues for a dynamic, discourse-based approach to modality which departs from the traditional, monolithic account of modality in a number of interesting respects: (i) modality is characterized as conveying the speaker's... more
This paper investigates the evolution of the present perfect and have to in English to assess whether these forms may be considered emerging inferentials. Combining quantitative and qualitative analyses in diachrony and synchrony, it... more
The issue of climate change is a serious challenge to human beings, the environment, the planet in general and individual countries in particular (Gardiner, 2024; Yasmin, 2024). As far as the issue of climate change in individual... more
Автором в статье исследуются вопросы, относящиеся к проблеме использования криминалистических методов и средств в решении ряда процессуальных задач, и, в частности, касающихся профессионального представительства в гражданском... more
The present paper describes an empirical investigation into an English modal predicate with the auxiliary verb must, the negative particle not and the bare infinitive of the main verb. Typically, the negator not changes the meaning of... more
This article contributes to the research on the semantics of the French modal verb DEVOIR
Разумети смисао и улогу моралних норми и правила уз примену тих знања у понашању велики су изазови од појаве човечанства. Задатак овог рада јесте језичка и културолошка анализа устава и закона из 19. века са циљем уочавања, издвајања и... more
Тема рада јесте статус екстрапонираних релативних реченица у админстративно-правном стилу српскога језика у 19. веку. Анализирани су примери релативних реченица из законодавно-правних текстова донетих у току 19. века (устави из 1835,... more
This study reports on data from two 6-week virtual inter- cultural exchanges (VIEs) between teachers of multilingual learners in K-12 schools in Türkiye and the United States. Using the data from these asynchronous VIEs, we focus on... more
We offer a new argument in favor of metanormative contextualism, the thesis that the semantic value of a normative 'ought' claim of the form 'S ought to Φ' depends on the value of one or more parameters whose values vary in a way that is... more
The paper presents a case study the purpose of which is to examine the assumption that in syntactical constructions with modal verbs, non-agentivity of the lexical verb might only allow the epistemic use of the modal (i.e. disallow the... more
"ABSTRACT: This study challenges the alleged parallel between Latin queo ‘I can’ and Sanskrit yā- ‘to be possible’. Though sharing some similarities (e.g., motion as a source domain, negative polarity contexts), they exhibit significant... more
Статья посвящена латинско-русским соответствиям и приёмам перевода на примере «Слова похвального Елисавете» М. В. Ломоносова. Отмечено, что в латинском варианте «Слова» автор достаточно точно следует оригиналу, главным образом используя... more
Constructions with the auxiliary verb ima ‘have’ and n/t participle entered the Macedonian verbal system under influence of the Balkan language environment. Macedonian is the only Slavic language that incorporated these periphrastic... more
This paper argues for a dynamic, discourse-based approach to modality which departs from the traditional, monolithic account of modality in a number of interesting respects: (i) modality is characterized as conveying the speaker's... more
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RESUMO: Este trabalho objetiva analisar os mecanismos segmentais de expressão da modalidade epistêmica, sustentando a hipótese de que o grau de comprometimento do falante pode ser avaliado em correspondência com o nível da organização... more
Gerada automaticamente pelo módulo Catalog, mediante os dados fornecidos pelo(a) autor(a) Batista, Victória Glenda Lopes. Modalidade deôntica e efeitos de sentido em língua espanhola / Victória Glenda Lopes Batista. -2019. 205 f. : il.
Îñíîâàí â ìàðòå 1957 ãîäà Âûõîäèò 6 ðàç â ãîä ÌÎÑÊÂÀ 2 2022 ìàðò àïðåëü ϸòð I â ñîâðåìåííîé èñòîðèîãðàôèè: 350 ëåò âåëèêîìó ðåôîðìàòîðó Êàê öàðü ïëàíèðîâàë êàìïàíèþ 1695 ã. Ðåîðãàíèçàöèÿ ìåñòíîãî óïðàâëåíèÿ â íà÷àëå XVIII â. Îáâàëèëñÿ ëè... more
â ìàðòå 1957 ãîäà Âûõîäèò 6 ðàç â ãîä ÌÎÑÊÂÀ 2 2022 ìàðò àïðåëü ϸòð I â ñîâðåìåííîé èñòîðèîãðàôèè: 350 ëåò âåëèêîìó ðåôîðìàòîðó Êàê öàðü ïëàíèðîâàë êàìïàíèþ 1695 ã. Ðåîðãàíèçàöèÿ ìåñòíîãî óïðàâëåíèÿ â íà÷àëå XVIII â. Îáâàëèëñÿ ëè êóðñ... more
We introduce syntactic modal operator ⊢ for being a thesis into firstorder logic. This logic is a modern realization of R. Carnap's old ideas on modality, as logical necessity (J. Symb. Logic, 1946) [1]. We place it within the modern... more
Во административно-правните документи-акти, извештаи, закони, правилници-се среќаваат голем број на номинализации. Ова, покрај другото, е резултат на две тенденции: тенденцијата за кондензација на изразот (Минова-Ѓуркова 2003:307) и... more
Миграции эпохи неолита и бронзы, связанные напрямую или косвенно с распространением индоевропейцев, оказали влияние на генофонд окраинных зон Западной Европы. В Скандинавии и на Иберийском полуострове, местное население испытало... more
L'article porte sur les semi-auxiliaires de modalité qui, au plan morphosyntaxique, se présentent sous la forme de locutions semi-figées construites autour d'un nom, et qui, du point de vue sémantique, expriment une valeur modale.... more