E-Book, Englisch, Band 193, 358 Seiten
Grosz On the Grammar of Optative Constructions
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-272-7345-1
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
E-Book, Englisch, Band 193, 358 Seiten
Reihe: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today
ISBN: 978-90-272-7345-1
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
This monograph is one of the first theoretical studies of optatives. Optative constructions express desire without an overt lexical item that means ‘desire’. The author specifically investigates optatives with the syntax of embedded clauses that contain prototypical particles such as ‘only’. He rejects the view that optativity arises compositionally from the standard semantics of embedded clauses and prototypical particles. The following system is proposed: Desirability is due to a generalized scalar exclamation operator EX. Furthermore, clausal properties such as factivity/counterfactuality are encoded in a Mood head, which co-determines morphological mood and complementizer choice. Finally, the prototypical particles that optatives contain are truth-conditionally vacuous presupposition triggers. As a result, these meaning components do not interact directly, but their meanings converge, with the consequence that they prototypically co-occur. This monograph is of interest for formal semanticists, syntacticians, pragmaticists and morphologists, and especially relevant for research on mood and particle semantics.
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Chapter 1. Introduction: The proposal in a nutshell
Chapter 2. Prolegomena: Definitions, terminology and other basics
Chapter 3. The core analysis: A system for analyzing exclamations
Chapter 4. The source of desirability in optatives
Chapter 5. On the role of mood in exclamations
Chapter 6. Particles and forces: Modulating EX
Chapter 7. Summary and conclusion
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