Mood and contextual commitment  

Oleh:

Portner, Paul ; Rubinstein, Aynat

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: Proceedings of the 22nd Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, held at University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, May 18-20, 2012, page 461–487.
Topik: mood; modality; context; propositional attitudes
Fulltext: 3463-7080-1-PB.pdf (189.11KB)

Isi artikel

Many recent analyses of mood selection in Romance and Balkan rely on the idea that subjunctive is triggered by a modal predicate whose meaning is comparative. We work out a precise version of this idea, which we call the protostandard theory, and show that it runs into problems with a variety of indicativeselecting predicates in French. We then develop and argue in favor of an alternative account based on individuals being contextually committed towards the modal parameters used to give the meaning of the predicate.

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