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Author: Angelika Kratzer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2012-01-12
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 019923468X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book 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 language of all theoretical persuasions.
Author: Angelika Kratzer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-01-12
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 0191636983
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains updated and substantially revised versions of Angelika Kratzer's classic papers on modals and conditionals, including 'What "must" and "can" must and can mean', 'Partition and Revision', 'The Notional Category of Modality', 'Conditionals', 'An Investigation of the Lumps of Thought', and 'Facts: Particulars or Information Units?'. The book's contents add up to some of the most important work on modals and conditionals in particular and on the semantics-syntax interface more generally. It will be of central interest to linguists and philosophers of language of all theoretical persuasions.
Author: Timothy Williamson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 0198860668
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat does 'if' mean? Timothy Williamson presents a controversial new approach to understanding conditional thinking, which is central to human cognitive life. He argues that in using 'if' we rely on psychological heuristics, fast and frugal methods which can lead us to trust faulty data and prematurely reject simple theories.
Author: Pascal Hohaus
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2020-11-15
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9027260524
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMood, modality and evidentiality are popular and dynamic areas in linguistics. Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions – Categories, co-text, and context focuses on the specific issue of the ways language users express permission, obligation, volition (intention), possibility and ability, necessity and prediction linguistically. Using a range of evidence and corpus data collected from different sources, the authors of this volume examine the distribution and functions of a range of patterns involving modalising expressions as predominantly found in standard American English, British English or Hong Kong English, but also in Japanese. The authors are particularly interested in addressing (co-)textual manifestations of modalising expressions as well as their distribution across different text-types and thus filling a gap research was unable to plug in the past. Thoughts on categorising or re-categorising modalising expressions initiate and complement a multi-perspectival enterprise that is intended to bring research in this area a step forward.
Author: Fabrizio Cariani
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-07
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1108474772
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of the interactions between the semantics, epistemology and metaphysics of the future.
Author: Daniel Altshuler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-10-13
Total Pages: 609
ISBN-13: 1108804535
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLinguistics and philosophy, while being two closely-related fields, are often approached with very different methodologies and frameworks. Bringing together a team of interdisciplinary scholars, this pioneering book provides examples of how conversations between the two disciplines can lead to exciting developments in both fields, from both a historical and a current perspective. It identifies a number of key phenomena at the cutting edge of research within both fields, such as reporting and ascribing, describing and referring, narrating and structuring, locating in time and space, typologizing and ontologizing, determining and questioning, arguing and rejecting, and implying and (pre-)supposing. Each chapter takes on a phenomena and explores it through a set of questions which are posed and answered at the outset of each chapter. An accessible and engaging resource, it is essential reading for researchers and students in both disciplines, and will empower exciting and illuminating conversations for years to come.
Author: Richard Crouch
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA logic is presented for indicative conditionals, based around an extension of intuitionistic logic to allow for both verified and unverified assertions. This logic naturally gives rise to three forms of epistemic modality, corresponding to must, may and will."
Author: Michael Woods
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1997-05-22
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 0191587826
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConditionals has at its centre an extended essay on this problematic and much-debated subject in the philosophy of language and logic, which the widely respected Oxford philosopher Michael Woods had been preparing for publication at the time of his death in 1993. Woods discusses the distinction between different kinds of conditionals, and then goes on to cover a range of topics, including assertibility, conditional probability, possible-worlds theories, and conditional commands and questions. He ends up sketching a new theory of counterfactual conditionals. This essay is edited for publication by Wood's friend and colleague David Wiggins, and accompanied by a commentary specially written by a leading expert on the topic, Dorothy Edgington. The masterful and original treatment of conditionals presented in this book will demand the attention of all philosophers working in this area.
Author: Lee Walters
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2021-02-04
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 0198712731
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConditionals, Paradox, and Probability comprises fifteen original essays on themes from the work of Dorothy Edgington, the first woman to hold a chair in philosophy at Oxford. Eminent contributors from philosophy and linguistics discuss a range of topics including conditionals, vagueness, knowledge, reasoning, and probability.
Author: Paul Portner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 0199292426
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
