Mental action and event structure in the semantics of try  

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Grano, Thomas

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: Proceedings of the 21st Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, held at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, May 20 - 22, 2011, page 426–443.
Topik: aspect; event structure; action theory; progressive aspect
Fulltext: 426-443.pdf (176.1KB)

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Sharvit (2003) proposes a semantics for try inspired by Landman’s (1992) account of progressive aspect. This paper discusses two empirical shortcomings of Sharvit’s analysis and proposes a new solution that retains Sharvit’s insight that try has an aspectual meaning but argues that (a) as suggested by much work in action theory, volitional events include an initial stage corresponding to a ‘mental action’ and (b) try picks out the ‘mental action’ stage of an event. The proposal is formalized by adapting Condoravdi’s (2009) theory of progressive meaning.

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