37.287, Books: Modal Sentences: Giannakidou and Mari (2026)

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Subject: 37.287, Books: Modal Sentences: Giannakidou and Mari (2026)

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Date: 19-Jan-2026
From: Ellena Moriarty [rfsupport at cambridge.org]
Subject: Modal Sentences: Giannakidou and Mari (2026)


Title: Modal Sentences
Series Title: Key Topics in Semantics and Pragmatics
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
           http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/ch/universitypress/subjects/languages-linguistics/semantics-and-pragmatics/modal-sentences?format=HB&isbn=9781108839372

Author(s): Anastasia Giannakidou; Alda Mari

Hardback ISBN:  9781108839372 Pages:  348 Price: U.K. £ 105.00
Hardback ISBN:  9781108839372 Pages:  348 Price: Europe EURO 122.55
Hardback ISBN:  9781108839372 Pages:  348 Price: U.S. $ 140.00

Abstract:

Building on the logical tradition of possible world semantics, this
innovative book explores the rich and diverse empirical domain of
modality in language, offering an ambitious theory of linguistic
modality as indicative of uncertainty. It covers a wide variety of
languages ranging from English, Greek, Italian and French, to Native
American and Asian languages, and studies modals alongside
evidentials, questions, and imperatives, to enable a deeper
understanding of modality. The authors introduce a new analysis of
linguistic necessity as conveying evidential bias, identifying new
categories such as flexible necessity modals, and offering a framework
for the linguistic category of evidentiality as a branch of epistemic
modality. They also study the relationship between questions and
modals through the concepts of nonveridical equilibrium, reflection,
and evidential bias. Laying out the formal semantic tools
step-by-step, it is essential reading for both scholars and students
of semantics, philosophy, computational linguistics, typology and
communication theory.

Written In: English (eng)



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