Summary : A study of the comprehension of modal markers : Propositional attitude verbs and adverbs The aim of this study is to characterize the main semantic dimensions involved in the meaning of two kinds of modal markers in French : propositional attitude verbs, and modal adverbs. An attempt was also mode at exploring the effects of context. Adult French speaking subjects were presented with modal sentences ; their task was : 1) to sort them on the basis of their similarity of meaning ; 2) to order them according to the speaker's degree of belief ; 3) to assign a degree of probability to the state or event described. Results show that : a) the most salient dimension can be interpreted as a linear scale, consistent across and within subjec...
The aim of this paper is to specify some of the relations between modal domain and aspect. In French...
International audienceThis paper deals with the perception of French enunciative modalities, like as...
International audienceThis paper examines the different modes of expression of deontic and epistemic...
Summary : A study of the comprehension of modal markers : Propositional attitude verbs and adverbs T...
Our aim is to give a representation of the modal contribution of sentence adverbs in comparison to o...
Devoir et pouvoir, comme les verbes modaux d’autres langues, ont déjà fait l’objet d’une littérature...
La modalité est un phénomène linguistique qui ne peut pas être défini à partir de critères uniquemen...
International audienceABSTRACTThis paper presents a contrastive study of modal adverbs in English an...
This paper focuses on interpretation of statements such as Il me fallait de la menthe when understoo...
International audienceIn this paper, we propose a new analysis of epistemic statements (X croire / s...
Epistemic modality represents one of the linguistic modality expressing the speaker’s certainty eva...
International audienceThis paper analyses the role of person in two types of modalisation – the conj...
The decision to work on the modal verbs and on the semantically related items in French arose From ...
Epistemic modality represents one of the linguistic modality expressing the speaker’s certainty eval...
As recent research has highlighted (Traugott 2002, Langacker 2003), modality plays a key role in exp...
The aim of this paper is to specify some of the relations between modal domain and aspect. In French...
International audienceThis paper deals with the perception of French enunciative modalities, like as...
International audienceThis paper examines the different modes of expression of deontic and epistemic...
Summary : A study of the comprehension of modal markers : Propositional attitude verbs and adverbs T...
Our aim is to give a representation of the modal contribution of sentence adverbs in comparison to o...
Devoir et pouvoir, comme les verbes modaux d’autres langues, ont déjà fait l’objet d’une littérature...
La modalité est un phénomène linguistique qui ne peut pas être défini à partir de critères uniquemen...
International audienceABSTRACTThis paper presents a contrastive study of modal adverbs in English an...
This paper focuses on interpretation of statements such as Il me fallait de la menthe when understoo...
International audienceIn this paper, we propose a new analysis of epistemic statements (X croire / s...
Epistemic modality represents one of the linguistic modality expressing the speaker’s certainty eva...
International audienceThis paper analyses the role of person in two types of modalisation – the conj...
The decision to work on the modal verbs and on the semantically related items in French arose From ...
Epistemic modality represents one of the linguistic modality expressing the speaker’s certainty eval...
As recent research has highlighted (Traugott 2002, Langacker 2003), modality plays a key role in exp...
The aim of this paper is to specify some of the relations between modal domain and aspect. In French...
International audienceThis paper deals with the perception of French enunciative modalities, like as...
International audienceThis paper examines the different modes of expression of deontic and epistemic...