Mood

Zusatztext Mood is a pervasive phenomenon across languages, but a challenging topic in formal semantics and pragmatics. This book is a highly valuable guide to the major approaches in the area and their considerable recent achievements. In Paul Portner, the field is fortunate to have a leading practitioner who is also a masterful explainer. With characteristic deftness and lucidity, he finds the sweet spot between rigor and accessibility, breadth of coverage and tautness of style. Mood is hands-down the best introduction and critical survey on the topic, and will be for years to come. Informationen zum Autor Paul Portner is a linguist specializing in semantics and pragmatics. As Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University, he has served as the Head of both the Theoretical and Computational Linguistics concentrations, and as Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science. He has published work across a wide range of topics in linguistics, including mood, modality, tense and aspect, information structure, and the semantics of imperatives and exclamatives. His book Modality was published by OUP in 2009. Klappentext This book presents the essential background for understanding semantic theories of both verbal mood and sentence mood. Paul Portner evaluates and compares the theories, draws connections between seemingly disparate approaches, and highlights the most significant insights in the literature to provide a clearer understanding of how mood works. Zusammenfassung This book presents the essential background for understanding semantic theories of both verbal mood and sentence mood. Paul Portner evaluates and compares the theories, draws connections between seemingly disparate approaches, and highlights the most significant insights in the literature to provide a clearer understanding of how mood works. Inhaltsverzeichnis General preface Acknowledgments List of figures and tables 1: Introduction 2: Verbal mood 3: Sentence mood 4: Core mood, reality status, and evidentiality References Index ...

Product details

• Authors: Paul Portner, Paul (Professor of Linguistics Portner
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9780199547524
• ISBN: 978-0-19-954752-4
• No. of pages: 294
• Series: Oxford Surveys in Semantics and Pragmatics; Oxford Surveys in Semantics and Pragmatics; Oxford Surveys in Semantics an
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Philosophy, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, computer science, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Computational and corpus linguistics, Semantics & pragmatics