Publications

Publication details [#23812]

Coates, Jennifer. 1990. Modal meaning: The semantic-pragmatic inferences. Journal of Semantics 7 (1) : 53–63.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

modality | sentence meaning vs. utterance meaning

Journal WWW

www3.oup.co.uk/semant/

Annotation

It is shown in a series of examples that, when pragmatic utterance meaning is taken into account, existing models of modal (sentence) meaning are at best partial models.