Agency and Intentions in Language

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-67978-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 114 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 185 g

Reihe: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Linguistics

Our sense of agency and ability to distinguish between intentional and accidental actions are fundamental for social interaction. They allow us to plan and perform joint actions and assign responsibility for our own actions and those of others. Research on the nature of agency and intentions has been very fruitful over the last few decades in philosophy, linguistics, and psychology. However, trully new discoveries could be made only when we engage in interdisciplinary discussions. This volume is the result of such discussions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Goncharov, Julie

Zeijlstra, Hedde

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Notes on Contributors

Agency in the English Way-Construction’s Constraints

Caterina Cacioli

Abstract

Keywords

1 Introduction

2 The Way-Construction

3 Attributing Agency

4 Corpus Research and Analysis

5 Conclusions

On Some Epistemic Access Effects

Francesco Costantini

Abstract

Keywords

1 Introduction

2 Subjunctive Obviation

3 Obviation and de se Attitude Reports

4 Epistemic Access as Source of Obviation

5 Other Expected Outcomes

6 Alternative Analyses

7 Concluding Remarks

Two Semantic Paths to Unintentional Causation

Ömer Demirok

Abstract

Keywords

1 Introduction

2 Background on Un-agentive Constructions

3 Syntactic Contrasts

4 Interpretational Contrasts

5 Summary of the Claims and Remaining Questions

Letting Structure Speak with Authority: Constraining Agents’ Choices with French laisser

Marta Donazzan, Clémentine Raffy, Bridget Copley and Klaus von Heusinger

Abstract

Keywords

1 Introduction

2 Theoretical Background

3 Characterising Authority as a Constraint on Choice

4 When Syntax Matters: Structural Constraints on Authority Relations

5 Conclusions

Acknowledgements

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Julie Goncharov is a post-doctoral researcher at the Seminar for English Philology and the University Center for Text Structures at the Georg-August-University in Göttingen. Her main areas of interest are semantics/pragmatics of natural languages and philosophy of language. Her current projects revolve around questions concerning agency, intentions, free will and their representations in language.

Hedde Zeijlstra is Professor at the Seminar for English Philology at the Georg-August-University in Göttingen. His main interest is the relation between sentence meaning and form: how does the meaning of a sentence follow from its parts, and why are there so many different ways of expressing the same meaning across languages?