The temporal semantics and modal pragmatics of the perfect. At the same time, it provides fresh impetus to more general linguistic issues such as grammaticalization, colloquialization, or the interplay between sociolinguistic and syntactic constraints. Join facebook to connect with paul portner and others you may know. Portner, paul and raffaella zanuttini, the characterization of exclamative clauses in paduan, language 761, 12332. Portner editor paul portner is associate professor of linguistics and acting director of the interdisciplinary program in cognitive science at georgetown university. In section 1, i provide three empirical arguments for a treatment of predictive expressions as modals. This book offers original theoretical accounts and a wealth of descriptive information concerning modality in presentday english. In addition, each attribute also has a value multiplicity to indicate the number of data elements contained in the.
Download pdf select article the linguistic legacy of spanish and portuguese. Readings advanced semantics linguistics and philosophy. Instead, as we will see, the existence of pairs like. The author concludes by discussing the relation between modality and other topics, especially tense, aspect, mood, and discourse meaning. 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. Portner, paul and raffaella zanuttini, the force of negation in wh exclamatives and interrogatives. Stefan kaufmann, angelika kratzer, marcin morzycki, alan munn, paul portner, cristina schmitt, yael sharvit, judith tonhauser, and audiences at chronos 9 and the university of chicago workshop on semantics and philosophy of language. He studied philosophy and linguistics at princeton university and at the university of. Imperatives may be interpreted with many subvarieties of directive force, for example as orders, invitations, or pieces of advice. A dicom data object consists of a number of attributes, including items such as name, id, etc. Modality paperback paul portner oxford university press. Read this book to get a deeper understanding of a wide range of semantics research on complex sentences and meaning in discourse. Partee, blackwell, 2002 as well as the author of numerous articles on topics such as mood and modality, tense and aspect. The treatment allows a combination of the central idea that the progressives meaning has a major modal component with insights of other theories.
M6p67 2009 415dc22 2008041664 typeset by spi publisher services, pondicherry, india printed in great britain on acidfree. Modality oxford surveys in semantics and pragmatics paul. The proposal made here draws much for the extended now theory mccoard 1978 and others, but improves on it by showing that many aspects of the perfects meaning may be factored out. Paul portners accessible guide to this key area of current research will be welcomed by students of linguistics at graduate level and above, as well as by researchers in philosophy, computational science, and.
Includes introductory materials and readings on propositional attitudes, modality, conditionals, tense, and intensional semantics. Paul portner is associate professor of linguistics and acting director of the interdisciplinary program in cognitive science at georgetown university. Modality and language modality is a category of linguistic meaning having to do with the expression of possibility and necessity. Fundamentals of formal semantics is a concise introduction to the field of semantics as it is actually practiced. Citeseerx document details isaac councill, lee giles, pradeep teregowda. Modality, a 2009 book by the semanticist paul portner. Download citation on mar 1, 2010, ana arregui and others published modality. In this paper, we propose to study the effects of negation and modality on opinion expressions. Journal of linguistics has as its goal to publish articles that make a clear contribution to current debate in all branches of theoretical linguistics. Clear explanations of significant recent research bring complex issues to life, with expert guidance on topics of debate within the field. Modality oxford surveys in semantics and pragmatics. Morphology, syntax, and semantics of modals bibliography. Palmers first edition of mood and modality in 1986, when the topic of modality was fairly unfamiliar, there has been considerable interest in the subject as.
Presents a semantic analysis of english progressive as an intentional operator within the framework of modal semantics. Explains the fundamental ideas and some of the most significant results of modern semantic theory. Paul portner is professor of linguistics at georgetown university. Toward finegrained annotation of modality in text core. He is the author of numerous articles on topics such as mood and modality, tense and aspect, and the syntaxsemantics interface. Some of the expression of modality can be shown in j.
Nov, 2007 imperatives may be interpreted with many subvarieties of directive force, for example as orders, invitations, or pieces of advice. I argue that the range of meanings that imperatives can convey should be identified with the variety of interpretations that are possible for nondynamic root modals what i call priority modals, including deontic, bouletic, and teleological readings. The proposal made here draws much for the extended now theory mccoard 1978 and. This is a book about semantic theories of modality. Modality therapy, a method of therapeutic approach modality diagnosis, a method of diagnosis modality medical imaging, a type of equipment used to acquire structural or functional images of the body, such as radiography, ultrasound, nuclear medicine, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and visible light. This short paper argues that predictive expressions will, gonna are modals. We show that each type has a specific effect on the opinion expression in its scope. Oxford surveys in semantics and pragmatics, paul portner. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended. Modality serves as an introduction, giving an overview of the main theories of modality, from modal logic, through angelika kratzers seminal work, to more recent approaches. Modality is a nonfiction book by the semanticist paul portner. Modality oxford surveys in semantics and pragmatics by paul portner pp.
Semanticssentence and information structure by paul. Gain a deeper understanding of essential research on the semantics of noun phrases and verb phrases. Explore books by paul portner with our selection at. The proposal made here draws much for the extended now theory mccoard 1978 and others, but improves on it by showing that. Paul portner, modality oxford surveys in semantics and. Request pdf on mar 1, 2010, ferenc kiefer and others published paul portner, modality oxford surveys in semantics and pragmatics find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. Its main goal is to explain and evaluate important contemporary theories within linguistics and to discuss a wide range of linguistic phenomena from the. Based on linguistic experiments informed by native speakers, we distill these effects according to the type of modality and negation. Modify, remix, and reuse just remember to cite ocw as the. The book, first published by the oxford university press in 2009, lays out the basic problems in linguistic modality and some of the standard approaches to solving them. Request pdf on mar 1, 2010, ferenc kiefer and others published paul portner, modality oxford surveys in semantics and pragmatics find, read and cite all. Pdf modality and meaning download full pdf book download. Instead, as we will see, the existence of pairs like 1 and 3 is so common as to require an explana tion.
Ordering combination for modal comparison graham katz georgetown university paul portner georgetown university aynat rubinstein georgetown university abstract the wellknown ordering semantics for modality has recently been challenged by a number of puzzles which may cast doubt on the viability of this approach. The book gives readers valuable insights into topics such as definiteness, specificity, genericity aspect, aktionsart and mood. Mode disambiguation modal disambiguation this disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title modality. Portner is associate professor of linguistics and director of the interdisciplinary program in cognitive science at georgetown university.
Paul portner s accessible guide to this key area of current research will be welcomed by students of linguistics at graduate level and above, as well as by researchers in philosophy, computational science, and. My specializations within linguistics are semantics and pragmatics, and their interfaces with one another and with syntax. Modality oxford surveys in semantics and pragmatics paul portner. Deontic modality, lexical aspect and the semantics of imperatives. The introduction describes the variety of grammatical phenomena associated with modality, explaining why modal verbs, adjectives, and adverbs represent the core. Deontic modality makes an invaluable contribution by collecting together the very best recent work done to pursue this project in both linguistics and philosophy. Abstract this article argues that the logical paraphrases used to describe the meanings of must, need, may, and can obscure the naturallanguage semantic interaction between these verbs and negation. Using a more sophisticated background theory of modality allows natural solutions for the problems raised for the modal account.
He is the author of numerous articles on topics such as mood and modality, tense and aspect, and. In linguistics, modality is what allows speakers to evaluate a proposition relative to a set of other propositions. Diagnosing modality in predictive expressions journal of. Paul portner, modality oxford surveys in semantics and pragmatics. I argue that the range of meanings that imperatives can convey should be identi. Oxford surveys in semantics and pragmatics isbn 9780199292431 isbn 9780199292424 1.
The temporal semantics and modal pragmatics of the. Click and collect from your local waterstones or get free uk delivery on orders over. We present a linguisticallyinformed schema for annotating modal expressions and describe its application to a subset of the mpqa corpus of english texts wiebe et al. Paul portner this is a book about semantic theories of modality. Modality is also an expression of fact and possibility. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the. Sandy might be home says that there is a possibility. These indepth articles from leading names in their fields cover the core concepts of sentential semantics such as tense, modality, conditionality, propositional attitudes, scope, negation, and coordination. Citeseerx toward finegrained annotation of modality in text. The purported nonnegatability of must is argued to be an illusion created by the indicativemood paraphrase is necessary, which treats the necessity as a reality rather than a nonreality. The introduction describes the variety of grammatical phenomena associated with modality, explaining why modal verbs, adjectives, and 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.
In addition modality means also the way of the speakers in one condition to speak or to behave in a comunication. Through simple examples, pictures, and metaphors, paul portner presents the fields key ideas about how language works. Diagnosing modality in predictive expressions peter klecha. The notional category of modality formal semantics wiley. One of attributes dicom modality, that represents dicom file type. The notional category of modality formal semantics. A modalized sentence locates an underlying or prejacent proposition in the space of possibilities the term prejacent was introduced by medieval logicians. The english perfect involves two fundamental components of meaning. Here portner manages to explain both the forest and the trees, illuminating, for each theory, both its intuitive appeal and its formal details. It contains an introduction and 15 previously unpublished state of the art articles.