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The Semantics of Opinion

Part of the Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy Book Series (volume 102)

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-024-1747-0

ISBN: 978-94-024-1746-3

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Nov 17, 2019

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Chapter 1Introduction

Bervoets, Melanie

Pages: 1 –12

[The empirical domain introduced here is a class of verbs whose members can be used to describe reports of opinion regarding future possibilities. Investigating the semantic nature of these “future-directed opining verbs”—including recommend, offer, and promise—involves an examination of several...
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Chapter 2Events and Dispositions

Bervoets, Melanie

Pages: 13 –39

[Future-directed opining verbs like offer, recommend, and insist are used to describe events in which a subject brings an opinion about a future-directed possibility into the common ground. These uses correspond to predicates that are [+telic] and [+stages], categorizing them as eventive...
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Chapter 3Distribution Effects

Bervoets, Melanie

Pages: 41 –88

[Free choice inferences, or distribution effects, are well-known with modals and other quantifiers. This chapter shows that these inferences turn up with the future-directed opining verbs in analogous ways, with some of the verbs exhibiting the pattern associated with existential terms, and...
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Chapter 4Deconstructing The Opining Verbs

Bervoets, Melanie

Pages: 89 –114

[To account for the characteristics of future-directed opining verbs observed in Chap. 2—including the kinds of eventualities the verbs can be used to describe, and the types of subjects and objects they can combine with—the most promising semantic analysis attributes to each verb both an...
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Chapter 5Future-Directed Opining Verbs and Negation

Bervoets, Melanie

Pages: 115 –182

[The exceptional licensing of strict NPIs in embedded contexts is often tied to the unexpected “Neg-raised” readings found when negating certain attitude verbs. Both phenomena arise (sometimes in slightly modified form) when stative future-directed opining predicates are negated as well, and here...
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Chapter 6In Conclusion: Opinions, Expression, and the Future

Bervoets, Melanie

Pages: 183 –190

[This chapter summarizes the previous five, taking a bird’s-eye view of the various empirical and theoretical contributions, and situating them within the broader domain of verbal opinion.]

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