02685nam 22006494a 450 991045398910332120200520144314.01-282-05322-197866120532210-19-155896-6(CKB)1000000000725055(EBL)431199(OCoLC)319940579(SSID)ssj0000203886(PQKBManifestationID)11181587(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000203886(PQKBWorkID)10174643(PQKB)11482024(MiAaPQ)EBC431199(Au-PeEL)EBL431199(CaPaEBR)ebr10288442(CaONFJC)MIL205322(EXLCZ)99100000000072505520080919d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrModality[electronic resource] /Paul PortnerOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20091 online resource (301 p.)Oxford linguisticsOxford surveys in semantics and pragmaticsDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-929243-4 0-19-929242-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-283) 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; IndexThis 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 varietyOxford linguistics.Oxford surveys in semantics and pragmatics.Modality (Linguistics)Modality (Logic)Electronic books.Modality (Linguistics)Modality (Logic)41508.33bclPortner Paul468043MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453989103321Modality1947112UNINA