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Modality

Abraham, W. 2003. Canonic and non-canonic deliberations about epistemic modality: Its emergence out of where? Ms., University of Vienna.

Bhatt, R. 1998. Ability modals and their actuality entailments. In Shahin, K. et al., Proceedings of WCCFL 17, pp. 74-87. CSLI Publications.

Brennan, V. 1993. Root and Epistemic Modal Auxiliary Verbs. Ph.D. thesis, UMass, Amherst.

Butler, J. 2003. A minimalist treatment of modality. Lingua 113:967-996.

Condoravdi, C. 2002. Temporal interpretation of modals: Modals for the future and for the past. In Beaver, D.I., L.D. Casillas Martínez, B.Z. Clark, and S. Kaufmann, The Construction of Meaning, pages 59-88. CSLI Publications.

Dowty, D. 1977. Toward a semantic analysis of verb aspect and the English "imperfective" progressive. Linguistics and Philosophy 1:45-77.

Drubig, H.B. 2001. On the syntactic form of epistemic modality. Ms., University of Tübingen.

Frank, A. 1996. Context Dependence in Modal Constructions. Ph.D. thesis, University of Stuttgart.

Gamut, L.T.F. 1991. Intensional Logic and Logical Grammar, vol. 2 of Logic, Language and Meaning. The University of Chicago Press.

Hughes, G.E. and M.J. Cresswell. 1996. A New Introduction to Modal Logic. Routledge.

Kaufmann, S. 2005. Conditional truth and future reference. Journal of Semantics 22:231-280.

Kratzer, A. 1981. The notional category of modality. In Eickmeyer, H.-J. and H. Rieser (eds.), Words, Worlds, and Contexts: New Approaches to Word Semantics, pages 163-201. Walter de Gruyter.

Kratzer, A. 1991. Modality/Conditionals. In von Stechow, A. and D. Wunderlich (eds.), Semantik: Ein internationales Handbuch der zeitgenössischen Forschung [=Semantics. An international Handbook of Contemporary Research], pages 639-650/651-656. De Gruyter.

Palmer, F.R. 1990. Modality and the English Modals, 2nd edition. Longman.

Palmer, F.R. 2001. Mood and Modality. Cambridge University Press.

Partee, B.H., A. ter Meulen, and R.E. Wall. 1993. Mathematical Methods in Linguistics. Kluwer.

Thomason, R.H. 1970. Indeterminist time and truth value gaps. Theoria 36:264-281.

Thomason, R.H. 1984. Combinations of tense and modality. In Gabbay, D. and F. Guenthner (eds.), Handbook of Philosophical Logic, Vol. 2: Extensions of Classical Logic, pages 135-165. D. Reidel.

Wurmbrand, S. (1998). Modal verbs must be raising verbs. In Bird, S., A. Carnie, J. Jaugen, and P. Norquest (eds.), Proceedings of WCCFL 18, pages 599-612. Cascadilla Press, Somerville, MA.

Zvolenszky, Z. (2002). Is a possible-worlds semantics for modality possible? A problem for Kratzer's semantics. In Jackson, B. (ed.), Proceedings of SALT XII.

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