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Modality / Paul Portner.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Portner, Paul, author.
Series:
Oxford surveys in semantics & pragmatics.
Oxford scholarship online.
Oxford surveys in semantics & pragmatics
Oxford scholarship online
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Modality (Linguistics).
Physical Description:
1 online resource (301 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
This comprehensive review and critical synthesis of research on modality focuses on formal theories within linguistics and related aspects of philosophical logic. It will be welcomed by students of linguistics at graduate level and above, as well as by researchers in philosophy, computational science, and related fields.
Contents:
Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; General Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Modal Logic; 3 Major Linguistic Theories of Modality; 4 Sentential Modality; 5 Modality and Other Intensional Categories; Bibliography; Index
Notes:
Previously issued in print: 2009.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-283) and index.
Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
ISBN:
1-383-04390-6
1-282-05322-1
9786612053221
0-19-155896-6
OCLC:
319940579

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