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Paul Portner

Paul Portner has 2 papers in our library, in 2021–2026, most of them on English; often with Aynat Rubinstein, Reut Tsarfaty, Shoval Sadde.

2 papers in our library · 2021–2026

OpenAlex · ORCID · h-index 28 · 92 works · 5,644 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 12 times in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9027

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 Affiliations

🎓Georgetown UniversityWashington · United States1995–2026 · 39 paperscurrent

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed.

 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 6The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Arts and Humanities · 2 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 2 worksArtificial Intelligence · 1 workComputer Science · 1 workCommunication · 1 workSocial Sciences · 1 work

🧭 Topics 1Research subjects and languages the work is about.English · 1 work

 Works by year

2020s

20261 paper20211 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. The Possible, the Plausible, and the Desirable: Event-Based Modality Detection for Language Processing (2021 · 21 citations)
    The paper defines event-based modality detection: find every modal trigger in a sentence, of any part of speech (should, plan, prefers, probably, necessary, able), give it a sense, and link it to the head of the event it modifies.
  2. The semantics of profane quasi-verbs: Social relations in a dynamic framework (2026)
    Formal semantics has largely ignored profane imprecations such as Fuck you! or To hell with X . Portner asks what these "quasi-verb imprecatives" (qv-imprecatives, after Quang 1971) mean and how they work in conversation. He first tests the standard expressive account, which uses Potts-style expressive indices…

 Co-authors here

4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 12 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read).

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