Open AccessA Montagovian treatment of modal subordination
Author(s) -
Nicholas Asher,
Sylvain Pogodalla
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
proceedings from semantics and linguistic theory
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2163-5951
pISSN - 2163-5943
DOI - 10.3765/salt.v0i20.2585
Subject(s) - subordination (linguistics) , modal , mathematics , linguistics , computer science , philosophy , materials science , polymer chemistry
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.