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The Semantics of Opinion
Attitudes, Expression, Free Choice, and Negation
Buch von Melanie Bervoets
Sprache: Englisch

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This volume sets out to provide a semantics for the "future-directed opining verbs", a novel class whose members are used to describe subjects' externally attested opinions toward future possibilities. Including verbs like recommend, promise, and permit, the class can be situated within a broader range of opinion verbs, including the well-known propositional attitudes, and key to the investigation here are differences among these groups along the lines of available event types, interaction with the common ground, and restrictions on subjects and objects. Other important semantic topics implicated in the discussion are dispositions, free choice disjunction, and Neg-raising/embedded NPI licensing, and the host of new data associated with the future-directed opining verbs prompts surveys of the expanded scope of these phenomena, and corresponding re-evaluation of existing theories. Collectively, the contributions of this work deepen our understanding of predicatesthat describe opinion and disposition, and how these interact with fundamental logical operations like negation and disjunction, highlighting the crucial role of contextual factors like relevance for these processes.
This volume sets out to provide a semantics for the "future-directed opining verbs", a novel class whose members are used to describe subjects' externally attested opinions toward future possibilities. Including verbs like recommend, promise, and permit, the class can be situated within a broader range of opinion verbs, including the well-known propositional attitudes, and key to the investigation here are differences among these groups along the lines of available event types, interaction with the common ground, and restrictions on subjects and objects. Other important semantic topics implicated in the discussion are dispositions, free choice disjunction, and Neg-raising/embedded NPI licensing, and the host of new data associated with the future-directed opining verbs prompts surveys of the expanded scope of these phenomena, and corresponding re-evaluation of existing theories. Collectively, the contributions of this work deepen our understanding of predicatesthat describe opinion and disposition, and how these interact with fundamental logical operations like negation and disjunction, highlighting the crucial role of contextual factors like relevance for these processes.
Über den Autor

After studying mathematics and philosophy at McGill University, Melanie Bervoets received a PhD in Linguistics from UCLA, with a specialization in semantics and pragmatics. Her work explores the complex interactions between words, logic, context, world knowledge, and grammar.

Zusammenfassung

Presents a reappraisal of the scope and source of "Neg-raising" phenomena

Offers an expansion of the landscape of free choice

Investigates the nature of habituality

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Events and Dispositions.- Chapter 3. Distribution Effects.- Chapter 4. Deconstructing The Opining Verbs. Chapter 5. Future-Directed Opining Verbs and Negation.- Chapter 6. In Conclusion: Opinions, Expressions, and the Future.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Allg. & vergl. Sprachwissenschaft
Rubrik: Sprachwissenschaft
Medium: Buch
Reihe: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
Inhalt: viii
192 S.
8 s/w Illustr.
192 p. 8 illus.
ISBN-13: 9789402417463
ISBN-10: 940241746X
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Bervoets, Melanie
Auflage: 1st ed. 2020
Hersteller: Springer Netherland
Springer Netherlands
Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
Maße: 241 x 160 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Melanie Bervoets
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.11.2019
Gewicht: 0,471 kg
Artikel-ID: 116837822
Über den Autor

After studying mathematics and philosophy at McGill University, Melanie Bervoets received a PhD in Linguistics from UCLA, with a specialization in semantics and pragmatics. Her work explores the complex interactions between words, logic, context, world knowledge, and grammar.

Zusammenfassung

Presents a reappraisal of the scope and source of "Neg-raising" phenomena

Offers an expansion of the landscape of free choice

Investigates the nature of habituality

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Events and Dispositions.- Chapter 3. Distribution Effects.- Chapter 4. Deconstructing The Opining Verbs. Chapter 5. Future-Directed Opining Verbs and Negation.- Chapter 6. In Conclusion: Opinions, Expressions, and the Future.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Allg. & vergl. Sprachwissenschaft
Rubrik: Sprachwissenschaft
Medium: Buch
Reihe: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
Inhalt: viii
192 S.
8 s/w Illustr.
192 p. 8 illus.
ISBN-13: 9789402417463
ISBN-10: 940241746X
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Bervoets, Melanie
Auflage: 1st ed. 2020
Hersteller: Springer Netherland
Springer Netherlands
Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
Maße: 241 x 160 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Melanie Bervoets
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.11.2019
Gewicht: 0,471 kg
Artikel-ID: 116837822
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