Temporal orientation and the semantics of attitude verbs
Résumé
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. A systematic exploration of these constraints is crucial for the development of a finer-grained typology. Though plausibly universal, such constraints as there are emerge more clearly in languages with a a rich overt system of indicative and subjunctive tenses and viewpoint aspects, such as Spanish, and they are less obvious in languages with a temporally impoverished subjunctive mood (as for instance French, German or English).
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Linguistique
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