Evidential Modals at the Semantic-Argumentative Interface: Appearance Verbs as Indicators of Defeasible Argumentation

This contribution aims at providing an argumentative method to account for epistemic modality and evidentiality. I claim that these two linguistic categories can work as semantic components of defeasible argumentative schemes based on classification processes. This kind of approximate reasoning is,...

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Main Author: Elena Musi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Windsor 2014-12-01
Series:Informal Logic
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Online Access:https://informallogic.ca/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/4107