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Modality Semantics

Modality Semantics is a linguistic framework within comparative semantics that systematically accounts for the expression and interpretation of necessity, possibility, and related attitudinal or evidential qualifications across different modal systems in natural language.

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494

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265

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2017–2026

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Publications

427

Meaning and Necessity, A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic.

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research · 1958 · 763 citations

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Meaning and Necessity. A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic

Ernest Nagel, Rudolph Carnap · The Journal of Philosophy · 1948 · 540 citations

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Modal expressions in English. By Michael R. Perkins Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1983. Pp. xi, 183. $18.50.

Heather McCallum-Bayliss · Language · 1985 · 514 citations

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Modalities and intensional languages

Ruth Barcan Marcus · Synthese · 1961 · 398 citations

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Evidence for modality-specific meaning systems in the brain

Rosaleen A. McCarthy, Elizabeth K. Warrington · Nature · 1988 · 388 citations

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Authors

494

  1. AP
    Anna Papafragou

    University of Delaware, United States

    4 publications · 574 citations

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  2. VH
    Valentine Hacquard

    University of Maryland, College Park, United States

    3 publications · 327 citations

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  3. JG
    Jeroen Groenendijk

    University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

    3 publications · 214 citations

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  4. JN
    Jan Nuyts

    University of Antwerp, Belgium

    4 publications · 201 citations

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  5. SY
    Seth Yalcin

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    3 publications · 288 citations

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Institutions

265

  1. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    7 h-index

    7 publications

    335 citations

  2. KU Leuven

    Leuven, Belgium

    7 h-index

    8 publications

    635 citations

  3. University of Antwerp

    Antwerp, Belgium

    7 h-index

    10 publications

    477 citations

  4. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    7 h-index

    8 publications

    432 citations

  5. University of Amsterdam

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    6 h-index

    9 publications

    286 citations

  6. University of Manchester

    Manchester, United Kingdom

    6 h-index

    9 publications

    1K citations

  7. Utrecht University

    Utrecht, The Netherlands

    6 h-index

    9 publications

    484 citations

  8. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    6 h-index

    6 publications

    387 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Philosophical Logic

    17 publications · 366 citations

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  2. Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory

    SALT · 16 publications · 515 citations

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  3. Journal of Pragmatics

    13 publications · 943 citations

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  4. Journal of Semantics

    10 publications · 586 citations

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  5. Lingua

    9 publications · 595 citations

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