We claim that weak necessity modals like English "should" are referential expressions denote pluralities of worlds, against the standard analysis, according to which all modal auxiliaries quantifiers. Weak pattern plural definites when tested for homogeneity effects (Löbner 2000, Križ 2016): they have scopeless readings under negation, tolerate exceptions in certain discourse contexts, and exhi...

It is well known that the German modal verbs ‘sollen’ and ‘wollen’ have evidential (reportative) uses, illustrated in (1), but to date there is no satisfactory formal semantic account of these uses: Most existing accounts focus on unembedded occurrences of these verbs and derive incorrect predictions for the embedded cases. Based on corpus data and a survey study, it will be argued that ‘sollen...

This paper describes ongoing work on the choice of modal expressions in the generation of recommendations about courses of study within the B.A.-program of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. We focus our work on the German modal verbs müssen (must), können (can), the subjunctive form sollte (should), and dürfen (may). The idea is to combine insights from formal semantics into the meaning of modal ver...

This study examines the subjunctive mood in Spanish. The mode is used to express concepts that are hypothetical, contrary fact, incorporate expression of speaker's feelings towards a state or an action. present research paper presents more detailed view on Spanish verbal modes and tenses. provides its own semantic functional contents. In addition, it has important syntactic behavior, since appe...

In this essay, we approach the question of language, thought, and reality by studying how grammar lexicon encode our relation to world (veridicality). We will address fundamental categories knowledge belief focus on specific grammatical devices such as mood morphemes (subjunctive indicative), attitude verbs belief, expressions possibility necessity modal (must, may, will, might). What is functi...

The present paper examines alternative conceptions of what it means for individuals to be considered legitimate members in a global order. First, I will adopt a convergence view that takes the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a de facto cosmopolitan reference for a wide plurality of conceptions. Within this framework, I will contrast two main cosmopolitan conceptions, each of them pivot...

November 16, 2021
 Thinking with the papers in this special issue has been an intense spiritual experience. It is true that for me reading and writing are transmorphic events. The words move into my body, get veins, about, lodge themselves stomach vibrate mix memories, molecules, muscles, thoughts a sort of flurry seems rather uncontrollable. I dream about words, lines, ideas written issue...

I denne artikel udforsker jeg idéen om karismatisk bøn, sådan som den udleves i pinsekirker på Færøerne. Jeg viser, hvordan bøn kan ses del af en større cirkulation velsignelser og mirakler, argumenterer for, at slags forbereder de individuelle troende til tage i, hvad ser Guds evige tilstedeværelse omkring dem. Artiklen kombinerer indsigter fra nylige debatter indenfor kristendomsantropologi s...