Modality is a non-fiction book by the semanticist Paul Portner. 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.

Linguistic Realities: An Autonomist Metatheory for the Generative Enterprise
AuthorPaul Portner
LanguageEnglish
Subjectlinguistic modality
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date
2009

Reception edit

The book was reviewed by Valentine Hacquard and Ferenc Kiefer.[1][2][3]

Bibliography edit

  • Portner, Paul (2009). Modality. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199292431.

References edit

  1. ^ Hacquard, Valentine (2010). "Review of Modality (Oxford surveys in semantics and pragmatics)". Language. 86 (3): 739–741. ISSN 0097-8507. JSTOR 40961709.
  2. ^ Kiefer, Ferenc (March 2010). "Paul Portner, Modality (Oxford Surveys in Semantics and Pragmatics). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. x+288". Journal of Linguistics. 46 (1): 254–259. doi:10.1017/S0022226709990351. ISSN 1469-7742.
  3. ^ "Reviews". Journal of Literary Semantics. 40 (1): 99–109. 1 April 2011. doi:10.1515/jlse.2011.006.