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Mood (Hardcover)
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Mood (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Surveys in Semantics and Pragmatics
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This book presents the essential background for understanding
semantic theories of mood. Mood as a category is widely used in the
description of languages and the formal analysis of their
grammatical properties. It typically refers to the features of a
sentence-individual morphemes or grammatical patterns-that reflect
how the sentence contributes to the modal meaning of a larger
phrase, or that indicate the type of fundamental pragmatic function
that it has in conversation. In this volume, Paul Portner discusses
the most significant semantic theories relating to the two main
subtypes of mood: verbal mood, including the categories of
indicative and subjunctive subordinate clauses, and sentence mood,
encompassing declaratives, interrogatives, and imperatives. He
evaluates those theories, compares them, and draws connections
between seemingly disparate approaches, and he formalizes some of
the literature's most important ideas in new ways in order to draw
out their most significant insights. Ultimately, this work shows
that there are crucial connections between verbal mood and sentence
mood which point the way towards a more general understanding of
how mood works and its relation to other topics in linguistics; it
also outlines the type of semantic and pragmatic theory which will
make it possible to explain these relations. The book will be a
valuable resource for researchers and students from advanced
undergraduate level upwards in the fields of semantics and
pragmatics, philosophy, computer science, and psychology.
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