General preface
Acknowledgments
List of figures and tables
1: Introduction
2: Verbal mood
3: Sentence mood
4: Core mood, reality status, and evidentiality
References
Index
Paul Portner is a linguist specializing in semantics and
pragmatics. As Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University,
he has served as the Head of both the Theoretical and Computational
Linguistics concentrations, and as Director of the
Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science. He has published
work across a wide range of topics in linguistics, including mood,
modality, tense and aspect, information structure, and the
semantics of imperatives and
exclamatives. His book Modality was published by OUP in 2009.
Portner has a knack for presenting clear examples that are
explained in a direct and tangible way....I would highly recommend
this book to a scholar wanting to learn more about a semantic
approach to mood. A familiarity with formal semantics would assist
the reader in understanding the plentiful formalizations presented,
but even those unfamiliar with this theoretical approach will
benefit from reading this book.
*Kathryn P Bove, LINGUIST List *
Mood is a pervasive phenomenon across languages, but a challenging
topic in formal semantics and pragmatics. This book is a highly
valuable guide to the major approaches in the area and their
considerable recent achievements. In Paul Portner, the field is
fortunate to have a leading practitioner who is also a masterful
explainer. With characteristic deftness and lucidity, he finds the
sweet spot between rigor and accessibility, breadth of coverage and
tautness of style. Mood is hands-down the best introduction and
critical survey on the topic, and will be for years to come.
*Stefan Kaufmann, University of Connecticut*
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