Epistemic modality involves complex contextual dependencies that linguists have studied (Roberts 1989; Veltman 1996). We show that they have a natural treatment within a continuation style semantics
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2006.In...
In modal subordination, a modal sentence is interpreted relative to a hypothetical scenario introduc...
Seth Yalcin has pointed out some puzzling facts about the behaviour of epistemic modals in certain e...
Epistemic modality involves complex contextual dependencies that linguists have studied (Roberts 198...
International audienceEpistemic modality involves complex contextual dependencies that linguists hav...
International audienceClassical theories of discourse semantics, such as Discourse Representation Th...
This paper investigates a new representation format for dynamic discourse in DRT, where contextual d...
This paper is concerned with some aspects of the semantics of modal verbs in English, in particular ...
Much of the literature on modality focuses, at least implicitly, on the occurrence of single modal a...
I argue against a simple contextualist account of epistemic modals. My argument, like theargument on...
On Angelika Kratzer’s canonical account, modal expressions are represented semantically as quantifie...
This paper invest igates a new representat ion format for dynamic discourse in D RT, where contextu...
Some modals are ambiguous between epistemic and circumstantial interpretations, but allow epistemic ...
I argue that English modal auxiliaries have an array of logical types: they function as sentence ope...
The topic of the present paper is the interaction of modalities in discourse. We make some initial o...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2006.In...
In modal subordination, a modal sentence is interpreted relative to a hypothetical scenario introduc...
Seth Yalcin has pointed out some puzzling facts about the behaviour of epistemic modals in certain e...
Epistemic modality involves complex contextual dependencies that linguists have studied (Roberts 198...
International audienceEpistemic modality involves complex contextual dependencies that linguists hav...
International audienceClassical theories of discourse semantics, such as Discourse Representation Th...
This paper investigates a new representation format for dynamic discourse in DRT, where contextual d...
This paper is concerned with some aspects of the semantics of modal verbs in English, in particular ...
Much of the literature on modality focuses, at least implicitly, on the occurrence of single modal a...
I argue against a simple contextualist account of epistemic modals. My argument, like theargument on...
On Angelika Kratzer’s canonical account, modal expressions are represented semantically as quantifie...
This paper invest igates a new representat ion format for dynamic discourse in D RT, where contextu...
Some modals are ambiguous between epistemic and circumstantial interpretations, but allow epistemic ...
I argue that English modal auxiliaries have an array of logical types: they function as sentence ope...
The topic of the present paper is the interaction of modalities in discourse. We make some initial o...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2006.In...
In modal subordination, a modal sentence is interpreted relative to a hypothetical scenario introduc...
Seth Yalcin has pointed out some puzzling facts about the behaviour of epistemic modals in certain e...
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