Semantics and Pragmatics
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<p>Semantics and Pragmatics, founded in 2007 and first published in 2008, is a Diamond Open Access journal published by the Linguistic Society of America.</p>Linguistic Society of Americaen-USSemantics and Pragmatics1937-8912<p>Articles appearing in Semantics and Pragmatics are published under an author agreement with the <a href="https://www.linguisticsociety.org/">Linguistic Society of America</a> and are made available to readers under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution License</a>.</p>A semantic universal for modality
https://semprag.org/index.php/sp/article/view/sp.16.1
<p>This paper articulates a new semantic universal for modal expressions in natural language, dubbed the Independence of Force and Flavor (IFF). This property accommodates counterexamples to Nauze 2008’s proposed universal from variable-force variable-flavor modals (Bochnak 2015a,b) and attitude verbs (Močnik & Abramovitz 2019), while still ruling out unattested modals. It may also be seen as a form of convexity applied to modals.</p> <p>EARLY ACCESS</p>Shane Steinert-ThrelkeldNathaniel ImelQingxia Guo
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2023-01-052023-01-05161:EA1:EA10.3765/sp.16.1