Subjective modality and tense in Persian

Tavangar, Manoochehr; Amouzadeh, Mohammad

doi:10.1016/j.langsci.2008.12.016

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“…Many linguists and logicians consider modality as a linguistic phenomenon that can be expressed at the level of sentence and constituents smaller than sentence or at the level of discourse (Portner 2009). Regarding Persian, previous studies have introduced elements such as modal verbs and auxilliaries, modal adverbs and past tense, modal nouns and modal adjectives to Persian modal system (Taleghani 2008a) (Tavangar and Amouzadeh 2009). Here, we focus on the representation of modal verbs and adverbs.…”

Section: Modalitymentioning

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Persian Abstract Meaning Representation

Takhshid¹,

Shojaei²,

Zahra³

et al. 2022

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Meaning Representation (AMR) is an annotation framework representing the semantic structure of a sentence as a whole. From the beginning, AMR was not intended to act as an interlingua; however, it has made progress towards the idea of designing a universal meaning representation framework. Accordingly, developing AMR annotation guidelines for different languages, based on language divergences, is of significant importance. In this paper, we elaborate on Persian Abstract Meaning Representation (PAMR) annotation specifications, based on which we annotated the Persian translation of The Little Prince as the first gold standard for Persian AMR. Moreover, we describe how some Persian-specific syntactic constructions would result in different AMR annotations.

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Section: Modalitymentioning

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Persian Abstract Meaning Representation

Takhshid¹,

Shojaei²,

Zahra³

et al. 2022

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“…Differently put, the exact responsible agent that should actualize the requested action is not mentioned; rather the request is highlighted. Consider the following examples: (17). I believe it is better if they were given more playtimes.…”

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“…Epistemic modality, as the focus of this study, concerns the evaluation of the speakers of the possibility or necessity of an utterance. Concerning the different concepts that fall within the scope of epistemic modality, a scale of likelihood, or an estimation of probability, is proposed with 'possibility' and 'certainty' at its extreme ends and 'probability' in the middle [10,17].…”

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Epistemic Modal Markers in L2 Learners’ Persuasive Letters

Tayebi¹

2013

IJLL

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The present study sets out to focus on epistemic modal markers in EFL learners' formal and informal writing samples. To this end, and by means of a proficiency test, one hundred participants were divided into two groups of higher and lower proficient, and were subsequently asked to write one formal and one informal letter on the topics provided by the researcher. The quantitative analysis revealed some differences in the use of epistemic modal markers across the two proficiency levels. That is, while the learners in the higher proficient group used more epistemic markers in their formal letters, the lower proficient learners tended to deontically modalized their sentences. The quantative analysis of the data in both formal and informal letters suggested that the level of directness corresponds not only with the formality requirements of the topic but also with the possessed pragmatic knowledge.

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How directive constructions emerge: Grammaticalization, constructionalization, cooptation

Mauri

Sansò

2011

Journal of Pragmatics

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Subjective modality and tense in Persian

Cited by 6 publications

References 26 publications

Persian Abstract Meaning Representation

Persian Abstract Meaning Representation

Epistemic Modal Markers in L2 Learners’ Persuasive Letters

How directive constructions emerge: Grammaticalization, constructionalization, cooptation

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