Existential Belief and Epistemic Modals
The thesis, based on Močnik (2019a,b,c), proposes a new semantics for epistemic modals and doxastic attitudes, based on the behaviour of epistemic modals embedded under doxastic attitudes. The core data comes from Slovenian, where the existential belief verb dopuščati (‘allow for the possibility’) d...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2023
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| author | Močnik, Maša |
| author2 | von Fintel, Kai |
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| description | The thesis, based on Močnik (2019a,b,c), proposes a new semantics for epistemic modals and doxastic attitudes, based on the behaviour of epistemic modals embedded under doxastic attitudes. The core data comes from Slovenian, where the existential belief verb dopuščati (‘allow for the possibility’) does not embed universal epistemic force. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1473422023-07-03T05:44:11Z Existential Belief and Epistemic Modals Močnik, Maša von Fintel, Kai Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy The thesis, based on Močnik (2019a,b,c), proposes a new semantics for epistemic modals and doxastic attitudes, based on the behaviour of epistemic modals embedded under doxastic attitudes. The core data comes from Slovenian, where the existential belief verb dopuščati (‘allow for the possibility’) does not embed universal epistemic force. S.M. 2023-01-19T18:46:46Z 2023-01-19T18:46:46Z 2022-09 2022-09-30T20:14:14.801Z Thesis https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/147342 In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted Copyright MIT http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/ application/pdf application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Močnik, Maša Existential Belief and Epistemic Modals |
| title | Existential Belief and Epistemic Modals |
| title_full | Existential Belief and Epistemic Modals |
| title_fullStr | Existential Belief and Epistemic Modals |
| title_full_unstemmed | Existential Belief and Epistemic Modals |
| title_short | Existential Belief and Epistemic Modals |
| title_sort | existential belief and epistemic modals |
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