Epistemic future and epistemic MUST : nonveridicality , evidence , and par - tial knowledge
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The question of whether the notional category ‘future’ in natural languages is a tense or modality has received a lot of attention in linguistic semantics, and it seems inescapable to conclude that the semantics of future involves a modal component (e.g. see Bertinetto, 1979; Enç 1996, Copley, 2002; Squartini, 2004; Kaufmann 2005; Mari, 2009,2010,to appear, Klecha 2014, Giannakidou 2012, Giannakidou and Mari 2012a,b, Broekhuis and Verkuyl 2014). Even a purely temporal analysis such as Kissine 2008 posits epistemic modality with the future. Future words, often and in many languages, exhibit purely modal readings. Consider as an initial example the English modal verb will.
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