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UNINA9910453989103321 |
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Autore |
Portner Paul |
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Titolo |
Modality [[electronic resource] /] / Paul Portner |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-05322-1 |
9786612053221 |
0-19-155896-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (301 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oxford linguistics |
Oxford surveys in semantics and pragmatics |
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Classificazione |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Modality (Linguistics) |
Modality (Logic) |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-283) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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