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Author:   Paul Portner (, Georgetown University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.70cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 25.30cm
Weight:   0.701kg
ISBN:  

9780199292424

ISBN 10:   0199292426
Pages:   302
Publication Date:   22 January 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Introduction 2: Modal Logic 3: Major Linguistic Theories of Modality 4: Sentential Modality 5: Modality and Other Intensional Categories Bibliography Index

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This book is sure to be recognized as the most thorough systematic survey of the semantics of modality yet undertaken...written with admirable care Frank Veltman, Professor of Logic and Cognitive Science, University of Amsterdam ...constitutes an ideal introduction for the beginner; but also the expert will learn from it...An extremely valuable, up to date, inspiring resource. Gennaro Chierchia, Haas Foundations Professor of Linguistics, Harvard University

Author Information

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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