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Main Author: Portner, Paul (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK Oxford University Press 2009
Series:Oxford surveys in syntax and morphology
Oxford linguistics
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
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
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. - ;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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 288 pages)
ISBN:0191558966
9780191558962

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