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The factive-reported distinction in English. / Caroline Gentens.
LIBRA PE1369 .G46 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gentens, Caroline, author.
- Series:
- Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 342.
- Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs [TiLSM], 1861-4302 ; volume 342
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Syntax.
- English language.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 253 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2020]
- Summary:
- This study offers a reconceptualization of the factive presupposition. It presents a cognitive-functional account based on three central features: the event structure of semantic classes of matrix predicates, the sources of modal stances in the complement clause, and the coercive potential of predicate-complement combinations. In this way the study complements the dominant formal pragmatic and formal syntactic theories on factivity.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Figures
- Tables
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- The what, why, and how in brief
- Prior definitions of factivity : Disparate views
- The factive presupposition
- From philosophy to logical semantics
- Pragmatic presupposition
- Interpersonal value of the factive presupposition
- Entity types
- Interpersonal marking in complement clauses
- Functional layers : grammatical restrictions on entity types
- Functional layers : grammatical restrictions on factive complements
- Asserted complement clauses and main clause phenomena
- The alternative approach : representational and interpersonal semantics
- Factive complement clauses as nominalized clauses
- Formal approaches
- Cognitive-functional approaches
- The matching problem : complement types and complement-taking predicates
- Aims
- Representational semantics
- A three-way semantic classification The semantic classification in simple clauses : creation and manipulation
- Created vs. pre-existent objects
- Manipulated vs. unaffected pre-existent objects
- The two parameters combined
- The semantic classification of finite complement clauses
- Created vs. pre-existent clauses
- Manipulated vs. unaffected clauses
- Aspectual analysis
- Theoretical prerequisites : situation types
- Analysis
- Reporting constructions
- Manipulative constructions
- Factive constructions
- Conclusion
- Interpersonal semantics : Modality
- Modality
- The interpersonal status of modal auxiliaries
- Modality as expressed by the indicative
- Speaker-related modal auxiliaries in complement clauses
- Modalized attestations of reporting, manipulative, and factive complement clauses
- Analysis of modal stance patterns : introduction
- Indirect speech or thought constructions Factive constructions
- Factive constructions with cognitive predicates
- Factive constructions with emotive predicates
- Object extraposition
- Theoretical background : factivity and, or givenness
- Methodology : data
- Object extraposition and givenness
- Referential givenness
- Discourse givenness
- Hearer givenness
- Relational givenness
- Object extraposition and factivity
- Object extraposition : only in factive constructions?
- The grammar and form of extraposed object clauses
- Discursive meaning : emphatic assertion
- The aspectual construal induced by object extraposition
- Factive constructions : aspectual construal by object extraposition
- Manipulative constructions : aspectual construal by object extraposition
- A constructional semantics for object extraposition : occurrential it
- The diachrony of the fact that-clauses Introduction
- Theoretical background
- The diachrony of the fact that-clauses
- Contexts with restricted alternation
- The matching problem : factive, manipulative, or reporting contexts
- The semantic value of fact in Late Modern English : truth presupposition?
- I regret (to say) : From factive to reporting construction
- Parentheticals
- The case of regret
- Methodology : Corpora and data extraction
- A synchronic analysis : Discourse contexts for I regret (to say)
- A diachronic analysis : the development of to-infinitives and reported speech patterns
- Early Modern English
- Late Modern English
- Productivity of the diachronic development
- Conclusions
- Summing up
- Brief outlook
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Current Copyright Fee: GBP20.00 0.
- ISBN:
- 9783110666076
- 3110666073
- OCLC:
- 1151897310
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