• Title of article

    Epistemic modality and truth conditions

  • Author/Authors

    Anna Papafragou، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2006
  • Pages
    15
  • From page
    1688
  • To page
    1702
  • Abstract
    Within the linguistics literature it is often claimed that epistemic modality, unlike other kinds of modality, does not contribute to truth-conditional content. In this paper I challenge this view. I reanalyze a variety of arguments which have been used in support of the non-truth-conditional view and show that they can be handled on an alternative analysis of epistemic modality.
  • Keywords
    Epistemic modality , subjective , Truth conditions , objective , Possible-world semantics , Evidentiality
  • Journal title
    Lingua(International Review of General Linguistics)
  • Serial Year
    2006
  • Journal title
    Lingua(International Review of General Linguistics)
  • Record number

    1290491