Abstract
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 Proto-Standard Theory, and show that it runs into problems with a variety of indicative-selecting 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.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of SALT 22 |
Subtitle of host publication | Proceedings of the 22nd Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, held at University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, May 18 - May 20, 2012, |
Editors | Anca Chereches |
Publisher | Linguistic Society of America |
Pages | 461-487 |
Number of pages | 27 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2012 |