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

Abstract

This contribution aims at providing an argumentative method to account for epistemic modality and evidentiality.

El análisis de datos textuales como metodología para el abordaje de la argumentación: una investigación con estudiantes de pregrado en universidades chilenas

“…Por ejemplo, Rocci (2012) y Musi (2014) centraron el análisis en los verbos can (potere) y must (dovere): el primero es asumido como consecuencia lógica de algo y el segundo se utiliza para denotar una compatibilidad lógica con algo. En este sentido, Musi (2014) analizó la evidencialidad y la modalidad epistémica, a través de la presencia de dichos verbos específicos contextualizados en esquemas de argumentación.…”

The Analysis of Implicit Premises within Children’s Argumentative Inferences

“…For a more detailed discussion on the model, see Rigotti and Greco Morasso (2010) and Rigotti and Greco (2019). For a discussion on the distinction between inferential-procedural and material-contextual premises, see Bigi and Greco Morasso (2012) and Musi (2014).…”

On the production of a multimodal news item: An argumentative approach

“…By combining the latter with the maxim from the locus from prototype definition "If a prototypical X is defined by a set of characteristics and Y features few or none of these characteristics, then Y cannot be a X", the final conclusion follows that the interview with Litfiba cannot be a front-page picture news. The locus from prototype definition has been elaborated by Musi (2014), who, in her study on the argumentative reconstruction of reasoning crystallized in Italian appearance verbs, discovered the argumentative significance of the prototype, i.e. "the most representative exemplar of the category" and the one that has the majority of common features with the other members of the category and shares the minor number of features with members belonging to other categories.…”