This comprehensive review and critical synthesis of research on modality focuses on formal theories within linguistics and related aspects of philosophical logic. It will be welcomed by students of linguistics at graduate level and above, as well as by researchers in philosophy, computational science, and related fields.

1. Introduction; 2. Modal Logic; 3. Major Linguistic Theories of Modality; 4. Sentential Modality; 5. Modality and Other Intensional Categories; Bibliography; Index

, Paul PortnerGeorgetown University