Shifting modal domains: An imprecision-based account

Authors

  • Peter Klecha University of Chicago

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3765/exabs.v0i0.604

Abstract

This paper proposes that the interpretation of modals is subject to (im)precision (a la Lasersohn 1999), explaining certain contextual domain shifting effects observed by Lewis (1979).

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Published

2012-04-08

Issue

Vol. 3: LSA Annual Meeting Extended Abstracts 2012

Section

Articles

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Published by the LSA with permission of the author(s) under a CC BY 4.0 license.