Mood and contextual commitment

Paul Portner; Aynat Rubinstein

doi:https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v22i0.2642

Mood and contextual commitment

Paul Portner, Aynat Rubinstein

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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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
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	https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v22i0.2642
State	Published - 2012

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Mood and contextual commitment. / Portner, Paul; Rubinstein, Aynat.
Proceedings of SALT 22: Proceedings of the 22nd Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, held at University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, May 18 - May 20, 2012,. ed. / Anca Chereches. Linguistic Society of America, 2012. p. 461-487.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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