New Work on Modality

There’s a cool new volume of the MIT Working Papers in Linguistics: vol. 51 “New Work on Modality”. Get it while it’s hot!

Contents:

  • Bridget Cople: Ordering and Reasoning
  • Andy Egan: Epistemic Modals, Relativism, and Assertion
  • Kai von Fintel and Sabine Iatridou: Anatomy of a Modal
  • Bernard Nickel: On Semantics for Characterizing Sentences
  • Dilip Ninan: Two Puzzles about Deontic Necessity
  • Tamina Stephenson: Assessor Sensitivity — Epistemic Modals and Predicates of Personal Taste
  • Robert Stalnaker: Conditional Propositions and Conditional Assertion
  • Seth Yalcin: Epistemic Modals