Temporal orientation and the semantics of attitude verbs

Brenda Laca (1)

1 SFL - Structures Formelles du Langage

This paper reports on work in progress in a particularly complex area of the syntax-semantic interface, that of the typology of argument clauses and of the predicates that embed them. One aspect of this well belabored field has been rather neglected up to the present, namely the constraints on temporal orientation that different types of predicates impose on their argument clauses. Although the temporal orientation of argument clauses is often attributed to the semantics of individual lexical verbs, a clear, but complex correlation will be shown to exist between attitudes of preference and future temporal orientation. This correlation is complex because it takes different forms depending on the different semantic subtypes of attitudes of preference, and thus contributes to motivate a finer-grained typology of such attitudes.

Domaines: Linguistique

Brenda Laca. Temporal orientation and the semantics of attitude verbs. International Meeting on Syntax, Semantics, and their Interfaces, Aug 2012, Porto Alegre, Brazil. ⟨hal-00773226⟩