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 …

Modalities of normality Page 239  Modalities of Normality Seth Yalcin  Introduction The
modals ought and should are widely thought to take both deontic and epistemic readings. At …

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

This book presents and develops inferential expressivism, a novel approach to the study of
meaning which combines elements of the expressivist and inferentialist programmes …

Do logically valid arguments necessarily preserve truth? Certain inferences involving
informational modal operators and indicative conditionals suggest that truth preservation …

The argument for this constraint is theoretical, rather than empirical. Possible worlds
semantics provides an elegant account of counterfactuals, which fits well into a general …

Recently, there has been a shift away from traditional truth‐conditional accounts of meaning
towards non‐truth‐conditional ones, eg, expressivism, relativism and certain forms of …

Epistemic modals have peculiar logical features that are challenging to account for in a
broadly classical framework. For instance, while a sentence of the form p∧◊¬ p ('p, but it …

I present unexplored and unaccounted for uses of'wants'. I call them advisory uses, on which
information inaccessible to the desirer herself helps determine what she wants. I show that …

The best known theory of modality in linguistics (,) uses a binary relation on worlds to state
truth-conditions for sentences with epistemic auxiliaries, and lifts this order to an order on …