This book explores graded expressions of modality, a rich and underexplored source of
insight into modal semantics. Studies on modal language to date have largely focussed on a …

Modal discourse concerns alternative ways things can be, eg, what might be true, what isn't
true but could have been, what should be done. This entry focuses on counterfactual …

This article introduces the classic accounts of the meaning of conditionals (material
implication, strict implication, variably strict conditional) and discusses the difference …

Since Sæbø (1985, 2001) drew the attention of formal semanticists to the compositionality
problems raised by anankastic conditionals like" If you want to go to Harlem, you have to …

Jonathan Ichikawa develops a contextualist semantics for knowledge ascriptions, and
shows how it can illuminate foundational questions in epistemology. He argues that in …

A uniform theory of conditionals is one which compositionally captures the behavior of both
indicative and subjunctive conditionals without positing ambiguities. This paper raises new …

Conditional sentences, canonically of the form" if p, q", whisk us away to a scenario
described by their antecedent and then make a claim about it in the consequent. There are …

There are certain uses of and and or that cannot be explained by their normal meanings as
truth-functional connectives, even with sophisticated pragmatic resources. These include …

This dissertation interrogates the boundary between scalarity and modality, two phenomena
which have lengthy but largely independent histories in natural language semantic analysis …

At the center of the literature on conditionals lies the division between indicative and
subjunctive conditionals, and Ernest Adams' famous minimal pair:(1) If Oswald didn't shoot …