On double access, cessation and parentheticality  

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Altshuler, Daniel ; Hacquard, Valentine ; Roberts, Thomas ; White, Aaron Steven

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: Proceedings of the 25th Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, held at Stanford University, May 15-17, 2015, page 18-37.
Topik: tense; parentheticals; events; states; attitude reports; indirect speech; corpus
Fulltext: 3048-3784-1-PB.pdf (203.36KB)

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Arguably the biggest challenge in analyzing English tense is to account for the double access interpretation, which arises when a present tensed verb is embedded under a past attitude—e.g., John said that Mary is pregnant. Presentunder- past does not always result in a felicitous utterance, however—cf. #John believed that Mary is pregnant. While such oddity has been noted, the contrast has never been explained. In fact, English grammars and manuals generally prohibit present-under-past. Work on double access, on the other hand, has either disregarded the oddity (e.g., Abusch 1997: 39) or treated it as a reflex of a particular dialect (e.g., Kratzer 1998: 14). The goal of the paper is to argue—based on a corpus study—that a present-under-past sentence is grammatical, but modulated by two, interacting pragmatic phenomena: cessation and parentheticality.

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