Publications
Publication details [#8999]
Sorensen, Viggo. 1979. The argumentative status of modality. In Velde, Marc Van de and Willy Vandeweghe, eds. Bedeutung, Sprechakte und Texte: Akten des 13. Linguistischen Kolloquiums, Gent 1978, Band 2. M. Niemeyer. pp. 273–284. 
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Annotation
A pragmatic characterization of epistemic modality (as in 'You must be very careless') and modulation (as in 'You must be very careful'), and an attempt at a pragmatic definition of modality as a whole.