- Look up
modality in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Modality may
refer to:
Modality (theology), the
organization and
structure of the church, as distinct...
- of be. The
modals should and
ought to
might be
replaced by be
supposed to,
again with the
appropriate inflection of be. Most of the
modals have negative...
- Look up
modal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Modal may
refer to:
Modal (textile), a
textile made from spun
cellulose fiber Modal analysis, the study...
- Spanish").
Epistemic modals can be
analyzed as
raising verbs,
while deontic modals can be
analyzed as
control verbs.
Epistemic usages of
modals tend to develop...
- the
modal base), if some of
these worlds are part of P.
Recent work has
departed from this
picture in a
variety of ways. In
dynamic semantics,
modals are...
- most
epistemic modals in
English are not
acceptable embedded under questions or negation. As
Lyons finds single lexemes of
epistemic modals in
English that...
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Modal logic is a kind of
logic used to
represent statements about necessity and possibility. It
plays a
major role in
philosophy and
related fields as...
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Modal adverbs are adverbs, such as probably, necessarily, and
possibly that
express modality, i.e., possibility, necessity, or contingency. The Cambridge...
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Modal voice is the
vocal register used most
frequently in
speech and
singing in most languages. It is also the term used in
linguistics for the most common...
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Modal realism is the view
propounded by
philosopher David Lewis that all
possible worlds are real in the same way as is the
actual world: they are "of...
