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Actuality Inferences - Causality, Aspect, and Modality (Hardcover)
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Actuality Inferences - Causality, Aspect, and Modality (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics, 15
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This book investigates the phenomenon of actuality inferences, in
which claims of ability are-in certain temporal
contexts-interpreted as descriptions of actual events, instead of
as descriptions of potentialities or possibilities. Although
actuality inferences evidently arise in the interaction between
modality and aspect, they have long resisted compositional
explication in standard treatments of these semantic categories.
Prerna Nadathur here pursues a new approach, in which actuality
inferences are linked to a novel component in the semantics of
ability: causal dependence relations. The account is developed
through a comparative, crosslinguistic semantic analysis of three
predicate classes that license similar inferences: implicative
verbs in Finnish and English, enough/too predicates in French and
English, and (modal) ability predicates in French, Hindi, and
English. Similarities in the inferential profiles of these
predicates are tied to their shared causal background structure,
while their differences-including in sensitivity to grammatical
aspect-derive from differences in asserted content and associated
aspectual class contrasts. The central argument is that a complex
causal structure for ability interacts with the compositional
requirements of aspect to derive the observed actuality-ability
ambiguity. The volume shows that causal structure and causal
relationships shape patterns of linguistic inference beyond the
overtly causal domain, and thus contributes to a new and growing
body of research in which formal, computational causal models are
employed as an analytic tool for lexical and compositional
semantics.
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