Authors:
- 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
Part of the book series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy (SLAP, volume 102)
Buy it now
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check for access.
Table of contents (6 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Back Matter
About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
-
Toronto, Canada
Melanie Bervoets
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Semantics of Opinion
Book Subtitle: Attitudes, Expression, Free Choice, and Negation
Authors: Melanie Bervoets
Series Title: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1747-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1746-3Published: 27 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1749-4Published: 27 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-94-024-1747-0Published: 16 November 2019
Series ISSN: 0924-4662
Series E-ISSN: 2215-034X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 192
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Semantics, Pragmatics, Syntax