1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910696217103321

Titolo

Yucca Mountain [[electronic resource] ] : persistent quality assurance problems could delay repository licensing and operation : report to Congressional Requesters / / United States General Accounting Office

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : U.S. General Accounting Office, , [2004]

Descrizione fisica

ii, 42 pages : digital, PDF file

Soggetti

Radioactive waste sites - Nevada - Yucca Mountain - Management - Evaluation

Quality assurance - Nevada - Yucca Mountain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from PDF title page (viewed Nov. 9, 2005).

"April 2004."

"GAO-04-460."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782813203321

Autore

Portner Paul

Titolo

Modality [[electronic resource] /] / Paul Portner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-383-04390-6

1-282-05322-1

9786612053221

0-19-155896-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (301 p.)

Collana

Oxford linguistics

Oxford surveys in semantics and pragmatics

Classificazione

08.33

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Modality (Linguistics)

Modality (Logic)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-283) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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