A Montagovian treatment of modal subordination

Authors

  • Nicholas Asher IRIT- Université Paul Sabatier
  • Sylvain Pogodalla INRIA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v20i0.2585

Keywords:

formal semantics, dynamic semantics

Abstract

Epistemic modality involves complex contextual dependencies that linguists have studied (Roberts 1989; Veltman 1996). We show that they have a natural treatment within a continuation style semantics.

Author Biographies

  • Nicholas Asher, IRIT- Université Paul Sabatier
    Directeur de Recherche, CNRS, laboratoire IRIT UMR 5505
  • Sylvain Pogodalla, INRIA
    Chargé de Recherches, INRIA Equipe Calligramme

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2010-08-14

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