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Truth and Veridicality in Grammar and Thought

Mood, Modality, and Propositional Attitudes

By: Anastasia Giannakidou,Alda Mari

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Truth and Veridicality in Grammar and Thought

Mood, Modality, and Propositional Attitudes

By: Anastasia Giannakidou,Alda Mari

Can language directly access what is true, or is the truth judgment affected by the subjective, perhaps even solipsistic, constructs of reality built by the speakers of that language? The construction of such subjective representations is known as veridicality, and in this book Anastasia Giannakidou and Alda Mari deftly address the interaction between truth and veridicality in the grammatical phenomena of mood choice: the indicative and subjunctive choice in the complements of modal expressions (words like must, may, can, and possible) and propositional attitude verbs (such as know, believe, remember, dream, and persuade). Combining several strands of analysis-formal linguistic semantics, syntactic theory, modal logic, and philosophy of language- Giannakidou and Mari's theory not only enriches the analysis of linguistic modality, but also offers a unified perspective of modals and propositional attitudes. Their synthesis covers mood, modality, and attitude verbs in Greek and Romance languages including Italian and French, while also offering broader applications for languages lacking systematic mood distinction, such as English, and explaining interactions between modality, time, and evidentiality"--]cProvided by publisher.

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University of Chicago Press

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022676334X

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9780226763347

Polarity Sensitivity as (Non)Veridical Dependency

By: Anastasia Giannakidou

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Polarity Sensitivity as (Non)Veridical Dependency

By: Anastasia Giannakidou

Polarity phenomena have been known to linguists since Klima’s seminal work on English negation. In this monograph Giannakidou presents a novel theory of polarity which avoids the empirical and conceptual problems of previous approaches by introducing a notion wider than negation and downward entailment: (non)veridicality. The leading idea is that the various polarity phenomena observed in language are manifestations of the dependency of certain expessions, i.e. polarity items, to the (non)veridicality of the context of appearence. Dependencies to negation or downward entailment emerge as subcases of nonveridicality.The (non)veridical dependency may be positive (licensing), or negative (anti-licensing), and arises from the sensitivity semantics of polarity items. The book is also concerned with the syntactic mapping of the sensitivity dependency. It is argued that licensing does not necessarily correspond to a requirement that the licensee be in the scope of the licenser. In some cases, for instance for the interpretation of negative concord, the reverse is required: that the licensee takes the licenser in its scope. The theory is applied to an extended set of old and new data concerning affective, free-choice dependencies, and mood choice in relative clauses. The primary focus is on Greek, but data from Dutch, English, and to a lesser extend Romance and Slavic, are also considered.

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299

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027282285

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9789027282286

The Use of Signing Space in a Shared Sign Language of Australia

By: Anastasia Bauer

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The Use of Signing Space in a Shared Sign Language of Australia

By: Anastasia Bauer

In this book, an Australian Aboriginal sign language used by Indigenous people in the North East Arnhem Land (Northern Territory) is described on the level of spatial grammar. Topics discussed range from properties of individual signs to structure of interrogative and negative sentences. The main interest is the manifestation of signing space - the articulatory space surrounding the signers - for grammatical purposes in Yolngu Sign Language.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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1614518971

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9781614518976

Truth and Veridicality in Grammar and Thought

Mood, Modality, and Propositional Attitudes

By: Anastasia Giannakidou,Alda Mari

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Mood, Modality, and Propositional Attitudes

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Book's by Anastasia Giannakidou

Truth and Veridicality in Grammar and Thought

Truth and Veridicality in Grammar and Thought

Polarity Sensitivity as (Non)Veridical Dependency

Polarity Sensitivity as (Non)Veridical Dependency

The Use of Signing Space in a Shared Sign Language of Australia

The Use of Signing Space in a Shared Sign Language of Australia

Truth and Veridicality in Grammar and Thought

Truth and Veridicality in Grammar and Thought

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