Modals and conditionals

Modals and conditionals / Angelika Kratzer.

This text contains updated and substantially revised versions of Angelika Kratzer's classic papers on modals and conditionals. It represents some of the most important work on modals and conditionals and the semantics-syntax interface and will be of interest to linguists and philosophers of lan...

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Main Author: Kratzer, Angelika
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Series:Oxford linguistics.
Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; 36.
Subjects:
Modality (Linguistics)
Grammar, Comparative and general > Conditionals.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Conditionals
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Table of Contents:
  • What must and can must and can mean
  • The notional category of modality
  • Partition and revision: the semantics of counterfactuals
  • Conditionals
  • An investigation of the lumps of thought
  • Facts: particulars or information units?

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