@misc{10498/15242,
year = {1998},
month = {1},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10498/15242},
abstract = {This paper sets out to reasess some relevance-theoretic analyses of the English modals, in particular Walton (1988), Groefsema (1995), Klinge (1993) and Berbeira Gardón (1996a), and show how a unified treatment of modal verbs is possible within the framework of Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory. Before going through each of these proposals one by one, a summary is offered of the main theoretical assumptions common to all of them. In the last two sections, it is argued that a unified account of the English modals can be given if we assume that they encode that the state of affairs described in the proposition expressed is located in a potential world. This proposal draws heavily on Wilson and Sperber's (1988) account of non-declarative sentences.},
keywords = {relevance theory},
keywords = {modality},
keywords = {English modal verbs},
keywords = {semantics},
keywords = {pragmatics},
title = {Relevance and modality},
author = {Berbeira Gardón, José Luis},
}