Verbs, time, and modality

Time and Modality in Avicennan Logic

persian modal verbs and the expression of modality

modal verbs and their different meanings can be investigated on the basis of various theoretical frameworks. in this paper, persian modal verbs are examined and analyzed in terms of degrees and kinds of modality proposed by palmer (1990). our analysis shows that although bǎyad ‘must’ does not entail the proposition, it is used to express three degrees of epistemic modality, two degrees of dynam...

The Modality of offer and Other Defeasible Causative Verbs

This paper is dedicated to verbs displaying the same ambiguity as offer in French and German. With agentive subjects, these verbs are used to denote an act performed with the intention of triggering a certain result. But this result does not have to occur for the sentence to be true, as shown by the noncontradictory continuation in (1a)-(2a). This is why we call these verbs ‘defeasible causativ...

Inferring and evaluating semantic classes of verbs signaling modality

We infer semantic classes of verbs signaling modality from a purely syntactic classification of 637 German verbs by applying findings from linguistics about correspondences between verb meaning and syntax. Our extensive evaluation of the semantic classification is based on a linking to three other lexical resources at the word sense level: to the German wordnet GermaNet and to the English resou...

time and modality in avicennan logic

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