On the event relativity of modal auxiliaries

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Epistemics and attitudes (2013, methodology): “…adopting two types of proposals from the literature on epistemic modality and on attitude verbs: First, we assume that epistemics do not target knowledge uniformly, but rather quantify over an information state determined by the content of the embedding attitude (Hacquard 2006, 2010, Yalcin 2007).”
The semantic roots of positive polarity: epistemic modal verbs and adverbs in English, Greek and Italian (2018, methodology): “13Individual anchoring of truth should be seen on a par with other kinds of anchoring of propositional content, i.e. temporal anchoring, or event anchoring (e.g. Hacquard 2006, 2010).”
Embedding epistemic modals in English: A corpus-based study (2012, background): “A&H argue that epistemic modals are anaphoric to the information state associated with the embedding attitude verb (cf. Hacquard 2006, Hacquard 2010, and Yalcin 2007).”