Epistemics and attitudes
This paper investigates the distribution of epistemic modals in attitude contexts in three Romance languages, as well as their potential interaction with mood selection. We show that epistemics can appear in complements of attitudes of acceptance (Stalnaker 1984), but not desideratives or directives...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Linguistic Society of America
2013-10-01
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| Series: | Semantics and Pragmatics |
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| Online Access: | http://semprag.org/article/view/2802 |