Trying to be progressive: the extensionality of try  

Oleh:

Y, Sharvit

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Semantics (Sebagian Full Text) vol. 20 no. 4 (Nov. 2003), page 403-445.
Topik: Noun Phrases; Progressive sentences;
Fulltext: vol 20, no 4, p 403-445.pdf (195.31KB)

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We observe that indefinite noun phrases in complement clauses of try sometimes have an obligatory existential reading. Based on this observation, and on some similarities in entailment patterns between Progressive sentences and sentences with try, we argue that the semantics of try is different from that of other attitude verbs, in that it requires the existence of an ongoing event in the actual world, which corresponds to the complement of try. The proposed semantics for try is inspired by Landman's (1992) semantics for the Progressive.

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