This book provides an introduction to the study of meaning in human language, from a
linguistic perspective. It covers a fairly broad range of topics, including lexical semantics …

The goal of this paper is to describe, illustrate, and advocate for the targeted construction
storyboard methodology for semantic fieldwork.* Storyboards are pictorial representations of …

A compositional analysis is provided of temporal perspective and orientation (Condoravdi
2002) of modals in Dutch, English, Gitksan (Tsimshianic), and St'át'imcets (Lillooet Salish) …

The word'ought'is one of the core normative terms, but it is also a modal word. In this book
Matthew Chrisman develops a careful account of the semantics of'ought'as a modal …

The question of whether the notional category 'future'in natu ral languages is a tense or a
modality has received a lot of attention in linguistic semantics, and it seems inescapable to …

Just as pronouns like she and he make anaphoric reference to individuals, English words
like that and so can be used to refer anaphorically to a proposition introduced in a discourse …

The question of whether epistemic modals contribute to the truth conditions of the sentences
they appear in is a matter of active debate in the literature. Fueling this debate is the lack of …

Pragmatic theories of utterance interpretation share the assumption that listeners reason
about alternative utterances that a speaker could have produced, but didn't. For such …

This book presents a novel overarching account of negation and negative dependencies,
based on novel data from language variation, language acquisition, and language change …

The dissertation is devoted to the formal mechanisms that govern the use of evidentials,
expressions of natural language that denote the source of information for the proposition …