Epistemic Modality in a Different Dimension?

Next week, we will examine the possibility that expressions of epistemic modality (and related expressions) operate in the layer of expressive meanings/conventional implicatures, whose analysis we are discussing this week.

A relevant reading is a paper by “Anna Papafragou”:http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~anna4/.

  • “Epistemic modality and truth conditions”:http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~anna4/papers/epmodtruth.pdf. To appear in A. Klinge & H. Müller (eds.), Perspectives on Modality (working title). Amsterdam: Benjamins.

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