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This is a book about semantic theories of modality. Its main goal is to explain and evaluate important contemporary theories within linguistics and to discuss a wide range of linguistic phenomena from the perspective of these theories. The introduction describes the variety of grammatical phenomena associated with modality, explaining why modal verbs, adjectives, and adverbs represent the core phenomena. Chapters are then devoted to the possible worlds semantics for modality developed in modal logic; current theories of modal semantics within linguistics; and the most important empirical areas of research. The author concludes by discussing the relation between modality and other topics, especially tense, aspect, mood, and discourse meaning.

Paul Portner's accessible guide to this key area of current research will be welcomed by students of linguistics at graduate level and above, as well as by researchers in philosophy, computational science, and related fields.

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  • Title Modality (Paperback)
  • Author Paul Portner
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First printing
  • Pages 302
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, 2009. 302p. Paperback. Series: Oxford Surveys in Semantics & Pragmatics. This is a most welcome
  • Publication date 2009-03-25
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780199292431 / 0199292434
  • Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.6 x 6.6 x 0.7 in (24.38 x 16.76 x 1.78 cm)
  • Category Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy
  • Library of Congress subjects Modality (Linguistics), Modality (Logic)
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008041664
  • Dewey Decimal Code 415

About the author

Paul Portner is Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. He studied philosophy and linguistics at Princeton University and at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where his 1992 PhD dissertation was on Situation Theory and the Semantics of Propositional Expressions. He is editor of Formal Semantics: Essential Readings (Blackwell, 1992) and author of What is Meaning? (Blackwell, 2005). He is currently writing a book on Mood, which like the present work will appear in Oxford Surveys in Semantics and Pragmatics.
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