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Contextual Modals
journal contribution
posted on 2005-01-01, 00:00 authored by Horacio Arlo-Costa, William TaysomIn a series of recent articles Angelika Kratzer has argued that the standard account of modality along Kripkean lines is inadequate in order to represent context-dependent modals. In particular she argues that the standard account is unable to deliver a non-trivial account of modality capable of overcoming inconsistencies of the underlying conversational background.