Modality and Meaning
Title | Modality and Meaning PDF eBook |
Author | W.G. Lycan |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 1994-08-31 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780792330066 |
Part I of this book presents a theory of modal metaphysics in the possible-worlds tradition. `Worlds' themselves are understood as structured sets of properties; this `Ersatzist' view is defended against its most vigorous competitors, Meinongianism and David Lewis' theory of existent concrete worlds. Related issues of essentialism and linguistic reference are explored. Part II takes up the question of lexical meaning in the context of possible-world semantics. There are skeptical analyses of analyticity and the notion of a logical constant; and an `infinite polysemy' thesis is defended. The book will be of particular interest to metaphysicians, possible-world semanticists, philosophers of language, and linguists concerned with lexical semantics.
Modality and Meaning
Title | Modality and Meaning PDF eBook |
Author | W.G. Lycan |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 1994-08-31 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780792330073 |
Part I of this book presents a theory of modal metaphysics in the possible-worlds tradition. `Worlds' themselves are understood as structured sets of properties; this `Ersatzist' view is defended against its most vigorous competitors, Meinongianism and David Lewis' theory of existent concrete worlds. Related issues of essentialism and linguistic reference are explored. Part II takes up the question of lexical meaning in the context of possible-world semantics. There are skeptical analyses of analyticity and the notion of a logical constant; and an `infinite polysemy' thesis is defended. The book will be of particular interest to metaphysicians, possible-world semanticists, philosophers of language, and linguists concerned with lexical semantics.
Modality and Meaning
Title | Modality and Meaning PDF eBook |
Author | W.G. Lycan |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 351 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9401109362 |
Part I of this book presents a theory of modal metaphysics in the possible-worlds tradition. `Worlds' themselves are understood as structured sets of properties; this `Ersatzist' view is defended against its most vigorous competitors, Meinongianism and David Lewis' theory of existent concrete worlds. Related issues of essentialism and linguistic reference are explored. Part II takes up the question of lexical meaning in the context of possible-world semantics. There are skeptical analyses of analyticity and the notion of a logical constant; and an `infinite polysemy' thesis is defended. The book will be of particular interest to metaphysicians, possible-world semanticists, philosophers of language, and linguists concerned with lexical semantics.
Mind, Modality, Meaning, and Method
Title | Mind, Modality, Meaning, and Method PDF eBook |
Author | Richard M. Martin |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 1983-01-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780873957229 |
Modality in English
Title | Modality in English PDF eBook |
Author | Raphael Salkie |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 391 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 3110196344 |
Main description: This volume presents strongly empirical, corpus-based studies of a range of English modal auxiliaries and modal constructions in specific uses. It also approaches some of the classic issues in the field of modality from new perspectives, notably that of the 'Theory of Enunciative Operations' developed by the French linguist Antoine Culioli and his colleagues.
Corpus Linguistics and Sociolinguistics
Title | Corpus Linguistics and Sociolinguistics PDF eBook |
Author | Beke Hansen |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 437 |
Release | 2018-12-24 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 900438152X |
In Corpus Linguistics and Sociolinguistics, Beke Hansen provides an in-depth analysis of variation and change in the expression of modality in second-language varieties of English by adopting an integrated sociolinguistic and corpus-based approach.
Meaning and modality
Title | Meaning and modality PDF eBook |
Author | Casimir Lewy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 157 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Meaning (Philosophy) |
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