Paul Portner

Datos Biográficos

ID514574
NOMBREPaul Portner
NOMBRESPaul
APELLIDOPortner
FIRMAPORTNER P
AFILIACIONESGeorgetown University
ORCID0000-0003-3788-0315
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS29
TOTAL DE CITAS194
TOTAL COMO AUTOR25
TOTAL COMO EDITOR5
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1968
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2024
ÍNDICE H7

  • Restrictions on Indexicals in Directive Clauses

    Miok Pak, Paul Portner et al.ARTICLELinguistic Inquiry2024Referencias: 13

    We discuss the existence of a set of previously unnoticed restrictions on indexicals. Specifically, some indexicals are ruled out and others cannot freely occur in two clause types that have directive force but are distinct from canonical imperatives. These restrictions suggest that these clause types are interpreted with respect to a context that is “deficient” in some sense, or that they lack some syntactic structure needed to license these ind…

  • Political orientation in media treatment of police violence

    Open AccessTess Feyen, Alda Mari et al.ARTICLEDiscourse & Society2024Referencias: 5

    The goal of this paper is to unveil possible correlations between the political orientation of newspapers and their treatment of police violence. We consider three different news publications with diverging political orientations, namely Jacobin (Left), Breitbart (Right), and The New York Times (Center). We performed a corpus study that relies on two different categorizations: a new ontology for police violence situations, identifying a set of re…

  • Overt and Covert Subjects in Uyghur

    Open AccessXiang Li, Paul PortnerARTICLEProceedings of the Workshop on…2023

    Overt nominative-marked indexicals in Uyghur attitude reports are known to undergo obligatory shifting and trigger matching agreements. This paper challenges the prevailing view that the covert subject is parallel to its overt nominative counterpart. We evaluate several hypotheses that consider covert subjects to be true indexicals, but we find that none of them can fully explain all the observed readings. Drawing inspiration from previous studie…

  • Dimensions of honorific meaning in Korean speech style particles

    Open AccessPaul Portner, Miok Pak et al.ARTICLEGlossa a journal of general…2022

    In this paper we analyze a set of sentence final particles in Korean that express information on clause type and on the relation between speaker and addressee. Our focus is the latter type of information, known as speech style; we argue that it involves two distinct dimensions, hierarchy and formality. Hierarchy expresses the respective position of speaker and addressee relative to a scale based on a certain social relation (for example, boss-sub…

  • Mood variation with belief predicates

    Open AccessAlda Mari, Paul PortnerARTICLEGlossa a journal of general…2021

    This paper proposes that subjunctive in the complement of belief sentences in Italian expresses a relation between the attitude holder’s beliefs and the common ground. In contrast to most other Romance languages, ‘believe’ commonly and prescriptively takes subjunctive in Italian, though indicative is found as well, and as has been observed in the literature, the choice of indicative or subjunctive has semantic effects. We show that the indicative…

  • Modal objects or modal quantifiers

    Ariel Rubinstein, Aynat Rubinstein et al.ARTICLETheoretical Linguistics2020

  • Desire, belief, and semantic composition

    Open AccessPaul Portner, Ariel RubinsteinARTICLENatural Language Semantics2020Citada por: 6Referencias: 40

  • Semantics - Foundations, History and Methods

    KLAUS HEUSINGER, Claudia Maienborn et al.BOOKSemantics - Foundations, History…2019

    Get to grips with the fundamentals of semantics research. Written by a team of world-class experts, this book introduces the subject for a broad audience of linguists, cognitive scientists, philosophers, and computer scientists. It explores the core concepts of sentential semantics and includes sections on questions, imperatives, copular clauses, and existential sentences. It also features essential research on sentence types, and explains centra…

  • Semantics - Foundations, History and Methods

    Klaus Von Heusinger, KLAUS HEUSINGER et al.BOOKSemantics - Foundations, History…2019

  • The speaker-addressee relation at the syntax-semantics interface

    Open AccessPaul Portner, Miok Pak et al.ARTICLELanguage2019Citada por: 9

    Languages have several grammatical means of expressing the relation between speaker and addressee, including speech-style particles, politeness pronouns, allocutive marking, and honorifics. Despite the similarity in the meaning they convey, these politeness markers fall into two distributional classes: some ('content-oriented markers of politeness’) can occur in complement clauses, while others ('utterance-oriented markers of politeness’) are res…

  • Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science

    Claudia Maienborn, Klaus Von Heusinger et al.BOOKHandbücher zur Sprach- und…2012

    Semantics; Linguistic; Theories; Generative and Cognitive Linguistics

  • A syntactic analysis of interpretive restrictions on imperative, promissive, and exhortative subjects

    Open AccessRaffaella Zanuttini, Miok Pak et al.ARTICLENatural Language and Linguistic…2012Citada por: 17Referencias: 55

  • Semantics

    Claudia Maienborn, Klaus Von Heusinger et al.BOOKSemantics2011

  • Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science

    Klaus Von Heusinger, Claudia Maienborn et al.BOOKSemantics. Volume 22011

  • Semantics

    Claudia Maienborn, Klaus Von Heusinger et al.BOOKSemantics2011

  • Modality

    Paul PortnerBOOKModality2009

    This is a book about semantic theories of modality. Its main goal is to explain and evaluate important contemporary theories within linguistics and to discuss a wide range of linguistic phenomena from the perspective of these theories. The introduction describes the variety of grammatical phenomena associated with modality, explaining why modal verbs, adjectives, and adverbs represent the core phenomena. Chapters are then devoted to the possible …

  • Imperatives and modals

    Open AccessPaul PortnerARTICLENatural Language Semantics2007Citada por: 31Referencias: 13

  • Dependent Contexts in Grammar and in Discourse

    Paul PortnerARTICLETheoretical Linguistics2006

    1. Overview Sections 3–4 of Truckenbrodt's paper concern V2 in embedded clauses, and his analysis of such clauses takes as its central intuition the idea that there is a mechanism of discourse interpretation that affects all V2 clauses. With simple root sentences, the mechanism of discourse interpretation links the sentence to the context in which it is uttered; this is one of the main concerns of section 2. With embedded V2 clauses, the mechanis…

  • The Semantics of Imperatives within a Theory of Clause Types

    Open AccessPaul PortnerARTICLEProceedings from Semantics and…2004

    No abstract.

  • The (Temporal) Semantics and (Modal) Pragmatics of the Perfect

    Open AccessPaul PortnerARTICLELinguistics and Philosophy2003

  • Exclamative Clauses

    Open AccessRaffaella Zanuttini, Paul PortnerARTICLELanguage2003Citada por: 77Referencias: 3

    Exclamative Clauses: At the Syntax-Semantics Interface Raffaella Zanuttini and Paul Portner A central issue in the theory of clause types is whether force is represented in the syntax. Based on data from English, Italian, and Paduan, we examine this question focusing on a less wellstudied clause type, exclamatives. We argue that there is no particular element in syntax responsible for introducing force. Rather, there are two fundamental syntactic…

  • Topicality and (Non-)Specificity in Mandarin

    Paul PortnerARTICLEJournal of Semantics2002

    Current analyses of specificity are unable to provide an explanatory account for why specific and nonspecific uses of indefinites are available. While Abusch (1994), Reinhart (1997), and Kratzer (1998) provide successful mechanisms for deriving specific readings, they do not provide a fundamental explanation for the availability of this mechanism. This is due to the fact that specific indefinites are treated as involving an interpretive component…

  • Specific Indefinites and the Information Structure Theory of Topics

    Paul PortnerARTICLEJournal of Semantics2001

    Specific Indefinites and the Information Structure Theory of Topics Get access Paul Portner, Paul Portner Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Katsuhiko Yabushita Katsuhiko Yabushita Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Semantics, Volume 18, Issue 3, August 2001, Pages 271–297, https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/18.3.271 Published: 01 August 2001

  • Exclamative clauses at the syntax-semantics interface

    Open AccessRaffaella Zanuttini, Paul PortnerARTICLEZAS Papers in Linguistics2001

    Exclamative clauses exhibit a structural diversity which raises the question of whether they form a clause type in the sense of Sadock & Zwicky (1985). Based on data from English, Italian, and Paduan, we argue that the class of exclamatives is syntactically characterizable in terms of a pair of abstract syntactic properties. Moreover, we propose that these properties encode two components of meaning which uniquely define the semantics and pragmat…

  • What is Meaning?

    Paul Portner