Anna Papafragou. 2006. “Epistemic Modality and Truth Conditions”. Lingua, 116(10): 1688–1702. doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2005.05.009.
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.
Note that there are three handouts from talks given by me and my co-authors that play a crucial role in Papafragou’s paper. I have two thoughts about this: (i) yeah for the web which makes scientific communication so much easier, and (ii) high time for some of those handouts and talks to be superceded by real papers (yes, “CIA Leaks” and “Epistemic Modality for Dummies” are a start but there is more to come).
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