Weak necessity modals as homogeneous pluralities of worlds

O Agha, P Jeretič - Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 2022 - journals.linguisticsociety.org
We claim that weak necessity modals like English" should" are referential expressions that
denote pluralities of worlds, against the standard analysis, according to which all modal …

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O Agha, P Jeretic - 2022 - journals.linguisticsociety.org
We provide the first analysis of the apparent homogeneity effects displayed by weak
necessity modals. Previous work on weak necessity modals like English should has focused …