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Patrick Dendale, « Devoir épistémique, marqueur modal ou évidentiel ? », Langue française, ID : 10.3406/lfr.1994.5712
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Patrick Dendale : « Epistemic devoir, modal or evidential marker ? » It is generally recognized that the French verb devoir has deontic and epistemic senses. We focus on the epistemic sense and claim that the basic value of epistemic devoir is an evidential one whereas the modal values (probability, quasi-certainty) actually derive from it. We consider the nature of evidential devoir to be inferential and show how inference is to be understood as a complex operation including the search for premisses and the evaluation of competing conclusions.