Paul Portner (born 1966) is an American linguist and Professor of Linguistics at

Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private university, private Jesuit research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic higher education, Ca ...

. He is known for his works on

linguistic modality In linguistics and philosophy, modality refers to the ways language can express various relationships to reality or truth. For instance, a modal expression may convey that something is likely, desirable, or permissible. Quintessential modal ex ...

Books

* ''

Modality Modality may refer to: Humanities * Modality (theology), the organization and structure of the church, as distinct from sodality or parachurch organizations * Modality (music), in music, the subject concerning certain diatonic scales * Modalit ...

'', Oxford University Press (Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics) * ''What is Meaning?'', Blackwell * ''Mood'', Oxford University Press.

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Paul Portner
{{DEFAULTSORT:Portner, Paul Living people Georgetown University faculty Linguists from the United States Semanticists Syntacticians 1966 births