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Дуніна, К. І. "Репрезентація модальності в англійській мові". Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2013. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/30538.

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Категорія модальності настільки багатогранна, що завжди залишається у центрі лінгвістичного дослідження. Наразі, загальне визначення даної категорії відсутнє. Залишається тільки робоче визначення, згідно якого модальність є відношення висловлювання до реальності з точки зору мовця. При цитуванні документа, використовуйте посилання http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/30538

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Menzies, Stacey. "Nsyilxcen modality : semantic analysis of epistemic modality." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43809.

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The aim of this thesis is to describe and analyze the modal system of Nsyilxcen, an Interior Salish language spoken in south central British Columbia and northern Washington State. In particular, it focuses on the epistemic modals mat and cmay, which express necessity and possibility with respect to certain bodies of knowledge. Similar to modals in St'át'imcets (Rullmann et al. 2008) and Gitksan (Peterson 2010) these modals lexically encode an epistemic modal base and an indirect inferential evidential restriction. I propose that these two modals can be distinguished based on their modal force

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Boylan, David (David Henry). "Subjective modality." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120670.

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Thesis: Ph. D. in Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2018.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-104).<br>This dissertation focuses on subjective or epistemic readings of the modals 'might' and 'should' and considers how they fit into broader theories of modal vocabulary. Chapter 1, 'What the Future "Might" Brings', develops a puzzle about epistemic modals and tense, showing that future tensed epistemic modals are surprisingly marked in cases of predictable forgetting. It gives a solu

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Larm, Lars Ingemar. "Modality in Japanese." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.485462.

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This thesis offers a detailed structural account of a full range of grammatical markers available for the expression of modality in Japanese. Twenty modal expressions are systematically analyzed in the context of a Western typological approach, with special attention being paid to the issue of subjectivity, in the spirit of the indigenous grammatical tradition. The approach is a distributional one in which the elusive distinction between subjective and objective modality is subjected to scrutiny by the employment of a battery of overt tests. These diagnostics are designed to ensure that the th

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Capone, Alessandro. "Modality and discourse." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.363623.

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Berkovski, Yehezkel Sandy. "Approaches to modality." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.418841.

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McCarthy, Andrew Joseph. "Existence and modality." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.600731.

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In this dissertation I defend the non-contingency of objecthood: whatever is something is necessarily something; whatever there could have been is actually something. My defence begins by establishing that the non-contingency of objecthood is connected to the Barcan Formulas of first-order modal logic: the latter are valid schemas exactly if objecthood is non-contingent. Furthermore, the Barcan Formulas are themselves theorems of a particularly attractive system of first-order modal logic. Nevertheless, the presence of intuitive inform al counter-examples raises doubts over their form al valid

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Badran, Dany. "Ideology through modality." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2002. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12216/.

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This study is broadly concerned with the analysis of ideology in discourse. More specifically, it investigates the role modality plays in reflecting underlying ideologies as well as ideological inconsistencies in three practical analyses of discourse. Achieving these objectives is, I argue, dependent on a view of discourse which is not only functional but also pragmatic. The functional aspect of this view reflects the broad objectives of functional linguistics: i.e. relating linguistic structures to social structures. The pragmatic aspect reflects an emphasis on the need not to exclude 'the re

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Marti, Robert. "Multi-modality mammography." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.251724.

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Hacquard, Valentine. "Aspects of modality." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37421.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2006.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-214).<br>It is a cross-linguistically robust fact that the same modal auxiliaries come in different flavors: epistemic, deontic, ability, teleological... This fact is neatly captured in a system where each modal has a single lexical entry, where the difference in flavor comes from contextually-provided accessibility relations (cf. Lewis 1973, Kratzer 1981). Equally robust, however, are the phenomena that suggest that epistemics and a subset of deonti

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Yalcin, Seth. "Modality and inquiry." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45893.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2008.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-125).<br>The possibilities we consider or eliminate in inquiry are epistemic possibilities. This dissertation is mainly about what it is to say or believe that something is possible in this sense. Chapter 1 ('Epistemic Contradictions') describes a new puzzle about epistemic modals and uses it to explore their logic and semantics. Chapter 2 ('Nonfactualism about Epistemic Modality') situates the work of chapter 1 into a larger picture of content and c

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Brodowski, Björn. "Concepts and modality." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2012. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=195807.

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There’s a venerable tradition in philosophy to look to our concepts when it comes to appreciating facts about absolute real modality, i.e. how things can and must be in an absolute sense. Given the absence of a modal sensorium, the traditional model stated that modal facts have something to do with conceptual relations. Squares must be four-‐sided, for example, because the concept having four sides is part of the concept square. If this example could be generalised, it would not only provide a model for the epistemology of modality, it would also explain why much of our modal knowledge is a p

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Biggs, Stephen Thomas. "Modality and Mind." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194531.

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This dissertation consists of two parts. Part I proposes a new approach to modality, abductive modal realism. Part II proposes a new version of physicalism, abductive physicalism. The parts relate in that abductive physicalism presupposes abductive modal realism.Abductive modal realism holds that inference to the best explanation (i.e. abduction) grounds some and any justified belief about mind-independent necessity and possibility. This approach avoids the disadvantages of extant approaches to modality. Specifically, unlike extant approaches, abductive modal realism accepts real, mind-in

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Horvat, Ana Werkmann. "Layers of modality." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b7633467-cc32-44d8-9692-a147b1493e63.

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Much of the literature on modality focuses, at least implicitly, on the occurrence of single modal auxiliaries. However, cross-linguistically, modal auxiliaries can co-occur with one another, but under interesting restrictions. This thesis examines layered modal constructions and the semantic restrictions under which they combine. For instance, in languages such as Croatian, where double modal constructions are part of the standard, data shows that while some combinations are acceptable, others are not. Therefore, the aim of this thesis is to identify these semantic restrictions and to explain

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Pfau, Roland, and Markus Steinbach. "Modality-independent and modality-specific aspects of grammaticalization in sign languages." Universität Potsdam, 2006. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2006/1088/.

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One type of internal diachronic change that has been extensively studied for spoken languages is grammaticalization whereby lexical elements develop into free or bound grammatical elements. Based on a wealth of spoken languages, a large amount of prototypical grammaticalization pathways has been identified. Moreover, it has been shown that desemanticization, decategorialization, and phonetic erosion are typical characteristics of grammaticalization processes. Not surprisingly, grammaticalization is also responsible for diachronic change in sign languages. Drawing data from a fair number of sig

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Bui, Huy Q. "Quantification, opacity and modality." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ65025.pdf.

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Melia, Joseph. "The nature of modality." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.239492.

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Wachter, Daniel von. "Modality, causality, and God." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.289017.

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Winstanley, Paul. "Conceivability, apriority and modality." Thesis, Durham University, 2011. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/860/.

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I aim to understand whether apriority entails necessity, aposteriority entails contingency and conceivability entails possibility; that is, the relationship between, and the nature of, rationality and modality. The thesis is split into two parts: one on apriority and modality (chs. 2-4), and another on conceivability, apriority/aposteriority and modality (chs. 5 to 7). In Chapter 1, I discuss ‘two-dimensional modal semantics’, arguing that it is ill-equipped to provide a substantive account of rationality and modality, before setting out the basis of such an understanding. I begin the first pa

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McLeod, Stephen K. "Modality and anti-metaphysics." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.364089.

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Davies, N. J. "Truth, modality and action." Thesis, University of Essex, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.317697.

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Decker, Jason (Jason Andrew). "Modality, rationalism, and conditionals." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39344.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, February 2007.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 105-108).<br>This thesis consists of three interconnected papers on apriority, modality, and conditionals. In "Playground Conditionals," I look at three philosophical debates, each of which turns on the epistemic status of a certain kind of conditional-what I call a playground conditional. I argue that a close consideration of playground conditionals gives us a better appreciation of what we can do with conditionals and, ultimately, some gui

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Cogliati, Carlo. "God's existence and modality." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.612356.

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Eriksson, Jens. "Chord and modality analysis." Thesis, KTH, Tal-kommunikation, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-189437.

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The way humans listen to music and perceive its structure isautomatic. In an attempt by Friberg et al. (2011) to model thishuman perception mechanism, a set of nine perceptual features wasselected to describe the overall properties of music. By letting atest group rate the perceptual features in a data set of musicalpieces, they discovered that the factor with most importance fordescribing the emotions happy and sad was the perceptual featuremodality. Modality in music denotes whether the key of a musicalpiece is in major or minor.This thesis aims to predict the modality in a continuous scale

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Chua, David Teck Chun. "Dispositionalism, truthmaking and modality." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/16570.

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This thesis is concerned with issues in the metaphysics of ‘new actualism.’ New actualists hold that modal truths (truths about what is possible and impossible, what is contingent and necessary) are made true, not by possible worlds (whether of the concrete or abstract variety), but, rather, by actual objects and their properties. Prominent among the new actualists are dispositionalists who hold that modal truths are made true by the irreducibly dispositional properties of (actual) objects. My primary goal in this thesis is to defend a broadly dispositionalist account of truthmakers for modal

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Panayides, Christos Yiangou. "Aristotle on modality and determinism." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ59651.pdf.

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Strohminger, Margot. "Knowledge of modality by imagining." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6351.

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Assertions about metaphysical modality (hereafter modality) play central roles in philosophical theorizing. For example, when philosophers propose hypothetical counterexamples, they often are making a claim to the effect that some state of affairs is possible. Getting the epistemology of modality right is thus important. Debates have been preoccupied with assessing whether imaginability—or conceivability, insofar as it's different—is a guide to possibility, or whether it is rather intuitions of possibility—and modal intuitions more generally—that are evidence for possibility (modal) claims. Th

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Brown, Scott Andrew. "Essays on Modality and Instantiation." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1483479401220297.

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Munshi, Salma. "An examination of Aristotelian modality." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001978.

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From introduction: A popular misconception regarding Aristotle's views on modality is that Aristotle adhered to the doctrine of no unrealized possibilities. According to this doctrine, all possibilities are realized in time; in other words, if it is possible that something could happen, then at some time it is the case that that happens. For example, if it is possible for Socrates to escape from prison, then there will be a time at which Socrates will actually escape from prison. On this view, the possible and the actual co-incide; whereas there is abundant evidence that Aristotle was careful

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Fait, Stefano. "IS BAYESIAN UPDATING MODALITY-DEPENDENT?" Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/11572/341318.

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In a Bayesian perspective, the probabilistic dependencies between hypotheses under consideration and diagnostic pieces of evidence are the only relevant information for probabilistic updating. We investigated whether human probability judgments conform to this assumption, by manipulating the sensory systems involved in the acquisition and processing of information concerning evidence and hypotheses. Hence, we ran five (computer-based) experiments using a variant of the classic book bag and poker chip task (e.g., Phillips & Edwards, 1966). Participants were first presented with pairs of urn

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McCarthy, Alexandra Leigh. "A rebellious distemper : a Foucaultian history of breast cancer to 1900." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2005. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16030/1/Alexandra_McCarthy_Thesis.pdf.

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This dissertation explores some of the conditions of possibility underpinning contemporary breast cancer discourse, which is imbued with harsh moral, social and spiritual nuance. I have therefore explored a set of questions concerned with the past state of things in breast cancer care that laid the foundation for present approaches. I wanted to know how it became possible to speak what we now regard as the only truth about breast cancer. I wanted to understand how this truth was determined; who determined it, and who or what gave them the right to assert that their truth was the only truth. I

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McCarthy, Alexandra Leigh. "A Rebellious Distemper: A Foucaultian History of Breast Cancer to 1900." Queensland University of Technology, 2005. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16030/.

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This dissertation explores some of the conditions of possibility underpinning contemporary breast cancer discourse, which is imbued with harsh moral, social and spiritual nuance. I have therefore explored a set of questions concerned with the past state of things in breast cancer care that laid the foundation for present approaches. I wanted to know how it became possible to speak what we now regard as the only truth about breast cancer. I wanted to understand how this truth was determined; who determined it, and who or what gave them the right to assert that their truth was the only truth. I

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Palacios, Donna Marie. "The effects of teacher learning modality and student learning modality upon achievement for first graders." Virtual Press, 1985. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/439145.

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The three purposes of this study were:1. To identify the predominant perceptual modalities from among visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and mixed modalities for first graders;2. To ascertain differences, if any, in cognitive ability levels among the four perceptual modality groups;3. With cognitive ability controlled, to determine the achievement levels in reading, language, and mathematics among the visual, auditory, and mixed modality groups and among students assigned to the teacher modality groups; and to determine the effects on student achievement when student and teacher modalities matched

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Nordén, Anton Harry. "Epistemic modality in Ghanaian Pidgin English." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-131516.

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This study investigates the expression of epistemic modality in a corpus of Ghanaian Pidgin English (GhaPE). The epistemic expressions are manually identified and thereafter distinguished from each other in terms of grammatical status and their indication of different epistemic and evidential notions. 7 different elements are found, ranging from 1 pre-verbal marker, 1 adverb, 2 particles and 3 complement-taking predicates. The results indicate, in line with existing research, that to differentiate between usage properties of individual modal expressions it may be necessary to subdivide them in

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Smeenk, Robert Matthijs. "Combined modality treatment of pseudomyxoma peritonei." [S.l. : Amsterdam : s.n.] ; Universiteit van Amsterdam [Host], 2007. http://dare.uva.nl/document/43596.

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Mikučionis, Ugnius. "Modality and the Norwegian modal verbs." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2012. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2012~D_20121130_091644-61463.

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This dissertation deals with semantics of modality in general and semantics of the Norwegian modal verbs in particular. My lead-off assumption is that modality deals with people’s attitude towards the trustworthiness of propositions (epistemic attitude) and the presence or absence of obstacles for a state of affairs to occur (non-epistemic attitude). I distinguish between neutral and non-neutral attitude on the one hand and between simple and complex attitude on the other. Neutral attitude means that, in the speaker’s view (or someone else’s view, if the speaker is reporting others’ attitude),

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Badram, Dany. "Ideology through modality in discourse analysis." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.275961.

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Papafragou, Anna. "Modality and the semantics-pragmatics interface." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1998. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1317914/.

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This thesis explores certain aspects of the structure of lexical semantics and its interaction with pragmatic processes of utterance comprehension, using as a case-study a sample of the English modal verbs. Contrary to previous polysemy-based accounts, I propose and defend a unitary semantic account of the English modals, and I give a relevance-theoretic explanation of the construction of their admissible (mainly, root and epistemic) contextual interpretations. Departing from previous accounts of modality, I propose a link between epistemic modality and metarepresentation, and treat the emerge

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Vincent, Benet Donald. "Modality and the V wh pattern." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2015. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/6311/.

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Research into modality has tended to focus on modal auxiliary verbs (modals) at the expense of other forms that may express modal meaning. This thesis takes a phraseological, exploratory approach to the investigation of modal meaning by focusing on modal expressions with verbs with wh-clause complementation (the V wh pattern). The approach first tests the hypothesis that the pattern is associated with markers of modal meaning and then goes on to conduct a concordance analysis of samples of frequently-occurring V wh verbs taken from the British National Corpus. This analysis first categorizes t

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Kotowick, Kyle (Kyle Jordan). "Adaptive modality selection for navigation systems." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120379.

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Thesis: Ph. D. in Human Systems Integration, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2018.<br>This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.<br>Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-221).<br>People working in extreme environments, where their mental and physical capabilities are taxed to the limit, need every possible advantage in order to safely and effectively perform their tasks. Whe

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Harvey, Carlo. "Modality based perception for selective rendering." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2011. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/51765/.

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A major challenge in generating high-fidelity virtual environments for use in Virtual Reality (VR) is to be able to provide interactive rates of realism. The high-fidelity simulation of light and sound wave propagation is still unachievable in real-time. Physically accurate simulation is very computationally demanding. Only recently has visual perception been used in high-fidelity rendering to improve performance by a series of novel exploitations; to render parts of the scene that are not currently being attended by the viewer at a much lower quality with-out the difference being perceived. T

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Wymann, Adrian. "The expression of modality in Korean /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1996. http://www.ub.unibe.ch/content/bibliotheken_sammlungen/sondersammlungen/dissen_bestellformular/index_ger.html.

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Adams, Sarah Nicola. "Theism & the metaphysics of modality." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2015. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/11178/.

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Much cutting-edge research has been produced in the quest to find out which metaphysical account of modality is best. Comparatively little rigorous investigation has been devoted to questioning whether such accounts are compatible with classical theism. This thesis remedies some of this neglect and charts some of this previously under-explored territory existing at the intersection of metaphysics and philosophy of religion. Such an investigation is important since salient among the tenets of classical theism are ones that are characteristically modal. Not only is the classical monotheistic dei

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Racy, Sumayya Katharine. "Towards a Unified Treatment of Modality." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194394.

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Towards a Unified Treatment of Modality (abstract) Sumayya Racy, Ph.D. The primary claim of this thesis is that despite the numerous forms modality may take, both within and across languages, there are relatively few features, structures and operations which give rise to these numerous forms. For example, in English the modal notion of obligation may be expressed by a verb (He must go), but an adverb (He obligatorily goes), by an adjective (He is obliged), by a noun (He has an obligation), and even by a preposition (It's on him to go) or by no clear modal marker (He is to go). In other langua

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Kastis, Georgios. "Multi-modality imaging of small animals." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289830.

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Over the last few years there has been a great demand for noninvasive, dedicated, small-animal imaging systems for biomedical research applications. In this dissertation we will discuss the development and performance of two gamma-ray systems and a dual modality CT/SPECT system. Initially we introduce FASTSPECT, a stationary, scintillator-based, single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) system that was originally built as a brain imager. We discuss its transformation into a small-animal imaging system and validate its performance by presenting high-resolution images of phantoms and an

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Cavanaugh, Daniel J. "The cellular logic of pain modality discrimination." Diss., Search in ProQuest Dissertations & Theses. UC Only, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3390112.

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Hill, Patricia Ann. "Studies of the impact of sign modality." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0008/NQ59597.pdf.

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Agha, S. J. "Some problems concerning reference, thought and modality." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.384009.

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Abish, Aynur. "Modality in Kazakh as spoken in China." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-221400.

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This is a comprehensive study on expressions of modality in one of the largest Turkic languages, Kazakh, as it is spoken in China. Kazakh is the official language of the Republic of Kazakhstan and is furthermore spoken by about one and a half million people in China in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and in Aksai Kazakh Autonomous County in Gansu Province.The method employed is empirical, i.e. data-oriented. The modal expressions in Kazakh are analyzed in a theoretical framework essentially based on the works of Lars Johanson. The framework defines semantic notions of modality from a fun

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Moriarty, Siobhan. "Ontological categories, existence statements, and metaphysical modality." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/19043/.

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What is the content of the claim that tropes a and b are co-instantiated if there is no such thing as tropes? I begin this thesis by arguing that a sentence expressing such a claim would be deficient in content and would, therefore, not be truth-apt. I use this claim to set up a general presupposition problem for the truth-apt sentences of our language. I argue that all truth-apt sentences presuppose the existence of the kinds of things which are to serve as the semantic values of their terms. Understanding the content of such a presupposition requires understanding the content of a categorial

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