This book explores graded expressions of modality, a rich and underexplored source of
insight into modal semantics. Studies on modal language to date have largely focussed on a …

Already in the Port-Royal Logic of 1662, Antoine Arnauld & Pierre Nicole pointed out the
basic problem that befalls standard approaches to the semantics of deontic and bouletic …

This paper develops a compositional, type-driven constraint semantic theory for a fragment
of the language of subjective uncertainty. In the particular application explored here, the …

Modalities of normality Page 239  Modalities of Normality Seth Yalcin  Introduction The
modals ought and should are widely thought to take both deontic and epistemic readings. At …

This paper investigates the semantics of the suffix-NE in Javanese (Austronesian;
Indonesia), bringing to light new findings to bear on the composition of modal strength …

Getting the meaning of ought right and accounting for its relation to must has proven to be a
considerable challenge for deontic logic as well as formal semantic analyses of modality …

The epistemic modal auxiliaries must and might are vehicles for expressing the force with
which a proposition follows from some body of evidence or information. Standard …

In this article, I examine the distributional properties, emergence conditions, and
development of the habitual verbal head pflegen 'use (d) to'in the history of German …

The unachieved-goal reading conveys that some goal that the subject had was not fulfilled,
and the non-continuation reading conveys that some state held in the past but no longer …

This dissertation proposes a new linguistic theory of poetic language, working within the
framework of generative linguistics. I provide a substantial and systematic description of …