This book presents the essential background for understanding semantic theories of both verbal mood and sentence mood. Paul Portner evaluates and compares the theories, draws connections between seemingly disparate approaches, and highlights the most significant insights in the literature to provide a clearer understanding of how mood works.
This book presents the essential background for understanding semantic theories of both verbal mood and sentence mood. Paul Portner evaluates and compares the theories, draws connections between seemingly disparate approaches, and highlights the most significant insights in the literature to provide a clearer understanding of how mood works.
Paul Portner is a linguist specializing in semantics and pragmatics. As Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University, he has served as the Head of both the Theoretical and Computational Linguistics concentrations, and as Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science. He has published work across a wide range of topics in linguistics, including mood, modality, tense and aspect, information structure, and the semantics of imperatives and exclamatives. His book Modality was published by OUP in 2009.
Inhaltsangabe
General preface Acknowledgments List of figures and tables 1: Introduction 2: Verbal mood 3: Sentence mood 4: Core mood, reality status, and evidentiality References Index
General preface Acknowledgments List of figures and tables 1: Introduction 2: Verbal mood 3: Sentence mood 4: Core mood, reality status, and evidentiality References Index
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