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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 172 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, kaal: 320 g
  • Sari: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
  • Ilmumisaeg: 15-Aug-2011
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0415808227
  • ISBN-13: 9780415808224
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 172 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, kaal: 320 g
  • Sari: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
  • Ilmumisaeg: 15-Aug-2011
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0415808227
  • ISBN-13: 9780415808224
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This book builds a semantics for several kinds of future-referring expressions, including will sentences, be going to sentences, and futurates. While there exists previous work on future-referring expressions, this is the first treatment of such a variety of expressions in a formal semantic framework. Arguments presented herein explicate the meanings of these expressions, and account for similarities and differences among them. Shared is a future-oriented model with a systematic alternation between inertial and bouletic ordering sources that provide a new way of understanding the age-old future Law of the Excluded Middle, evident in all of the future-referring expressions. A difference found among these meanings is the presence or absence of progressive- or generic-like aspect in a position higher than the future modal. These very high aspectual operators affect the temporal argument of the modal's accessibility relation, with detectable effects that can be used to determine scope relations in future conditionals. Copley's analysis thus addresses a number of issues of great interest to formal semanticists, from modal and aspectual semantics, to the mapping of functional elements in the clause, to the logical form of conditionals.

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"This book is a must for scholars of future referring constructions in any language and any theoretical framework." --Ana Bravo, University of Granada

Acknowledgments xiii
1 Introduction 1(14)
1.1 Tools
3(10)
1.1.1 Syntactic Assumptions
3(1)
1.1.2 The Intensional System
3(1)
1.1.3 Tense and Aspect
4(3)
1.1.4 Talking About Times
7(1)
1.1.5 Modality
8(3)
1.1.5.1 The Modal Base
9(1)
1.1.5.2 The Ordering Source
10(1)
1.1.6 Branching Futures: Times and Worlds
11(2)
1.2 Overview
13(2)
2 Futurates 15(44)
2.1 Futurate Meaning
17(26)
2.1.1 An Initial Hypothesis
18(3)
2.1.2 Problem #1: The Status of the Plan
21(1)
2.1.3 Problem #2: Speaker Confidence
22(1)
2.1.4 Getting Smarter about Plans
23(2)
2.1.5 Intuitions about Plans
25(3)
2.1.5.1 On Being Committed
25(2)
2.1.5.2 On Ability
27(1)
2.1.5.3 On Changes
28(1)
2.1.6 A Solution
28(7)
2.1.6.1 Formal Beginnings
29(4)
2.1.6.2 Scopal Relations in the Definition of Direction
33(1)
2.1.6.3 Ability and Accidental Directors
33(2)
2.1.7 Simple Futurates
35(4)
2.1.8 Futurates Without Directors
39(3)
2.1.9 Summary
42(1)
2.2 Mapping Futurate Meaning onto Morphosyntax
43(14)
2.2.1 The Location of ALL-b
43(1)
2.2.2 ALL-b in Progressive Futurates
44(6)
2.2.2.1 Dowty's Modal Progressive
45(3)
2.2.2.2 Ongoing Readings of Progressives
48(1)
2.2.2.3 A Temporal Issue
49(1)
2.2.3 ALL-b in Simple Futurates
50(4)
2.2.3.1 Ordering in Generics
51(1)
2.2.3.2 The Principle of the Excluded Middle Revisited
52(1)
2.2.3.3 Generics and the Simple Futurate Presupposition
53(1)
2.2.3.4 Summary
54(1)
2.2.4 On Directors in the Syntax
54(3)
2.3 Conclusion
57(2)
3 Futures 59(38)
3.1 Ordering and Aspect in Futures
63(14)
3.1.1 Ordering in Futures
63(6)
3.1.1.1 Inertial and Bouletic Construals of Futures
64(2)
3.1.1.2 Different Directions
66(2)
3.1.1.3 Inertial Differences
68(1)
3.1.1.4 Bouletic Differences
69(1)
3.1.1.5 Summary
69(1)
3.1.2 Aspect in Futures
69(8)
3.1.2.1 Present Temporal Input
70(4)
3.1.2.2 Indefinites
74(2)
3.1.2.3 Distinguishing Bare and Generic Will
76(1)
3.1.2.4 Summary
76(1)
3.2 Aspect Constrains the Accessibility Relation
77(9)
3.2.1 The Pragmatics of Offering
77(2)
3.2.2 Back to the Billboard
79(2)
3.2.3 Proposal
81(2)
3.2.4 Explaining the Puzzle
83(3)
3.3 Aspectual-Modal Interactions in Past Futures
86(4)
3.3.1 Fate-in-Hindsight
87(2)
3.3.2 No Past Bouletic Generics
89(1)
3.4 Dispositional Will
90(4)
3.4.1 Genericity in Dispositional Will
91(1)
3.4.2 Dissimilarities with Generic Will
91(1)
3.4.3 Towards a Hypothesis
92(1)
3.4.4 Facts from Indonesian
93(1)
3.5 Conclusion
94(3)
4 Conditionals 97(40)
4.1 Conditional Contexts
102(9)
4.1.1 Relevance Conditionals
103(2)
4.1.2 Indication and Causal Contexts
105(2)
4.1.3 Wide Scope Be Going To
107(4)
4.2 Main Verbs and the Complement SIP Effect
111(7)
4.2.1 Wide Be Going To Has the Complement SIP Effect
112(3)
4.2.2 Bare Will Has the Complement SIP Effect
115(3)
4.2.2.1 On the Scope of Bare Will
116(1)
4.2.2.2 On the Missing Readings of Bare Will
117(1)
4.2.3 Summary
118(1)
4.3 Implementing the Mechanism
118(16)
4.3.1 The Mechanism
119(3)
4.3.2 Temporal Interpretation of Antecedent and Consequent
122(10)
4.3.2.1 Lemma 1: Type 1 Conditionals
122(3)
4.3.2.2 Lemma 2: Type 2 Conditionals
125(4)
4.3.2.3 Which Conditional is Which?
129(1)
4.3.2.4 Why the SIP Value of p Doesn't Matter
130(2)
4.3.3 Formal Details
132(2)
4.3.4 Summary
134(1)
4.4 Simultaneous States
134(2)
4.5 Conclusion
136(1)
5 Conclusion 137(8)
5.1 Facts Addressed
137(1)
5.2 Remaining Questions
138(7)
5.2.1 Non-Futurate Future-Oriented Presents
139(2)
5.2.2 No Future Marking
141(4)
References 145(8)
Index 153
Bridget Copley is a semanticist affiliated with the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique and Université Paris 8 as a Chargée de Recherche in the UMR 7023 "Structures Formelles du Langage."