Modal Sentences

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Anastasia Giannakidou (University of Chicago) Alda Mari (Instutut Jean Nicod, CNRS)

Modal Sentences

Name: Modal Sentences
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ISBN: 9781108839372

Anastasia Giannakidou (University of Chicago), Alda Mari (Instutut Jean Nicod, CNRS)

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Cambridge University Press
22 January 2026

Semantics; Grammar, syntax

Series: Key Topics in Semantics and Pragmatics

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.

By: Anastasia Giannakidou (University of Chicago), Alda Mari (Instutut Jean Nicod, CNRS)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Weight: 551g
ISBN: 9781108839372
ISBN 10: 1108839371
Series: Key Topics in Semantics and Pragmatics
Pages: 348
Publication Date: 22 January 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Anastasia Giannakidou is Frank J. McLoraine Professor of Linguistics, University of Chicago. Her recent publications include Truth and Veridicality in Grammar and Thought (with Mari, 2021). Alda Mari is Director of Research at Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS Paris. Her recent publications include Truth and Veridicality in Grammar and Thought (with Giannakidou, 2021).