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Predicting the end: Epistemic change in Romance
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In: ISSN: 1937-8912 ; Semantics and Pragmatics ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02151379 ; Semantics and Pragmatics, Linguistic Society of America, 2020, 13 (2020)
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International audience ; This paper analyzes a verbal periphrasis in European Portuguese (EP) and Italian (I), formed by a verb meaning 'to end', a 'by'-preposition and a verb in the infinitive form (V). We show that this periphrasis-for short, [end by V]-behaves differently from the aspectual terminative periphrasis formed with the verb 'to end', by focusing on three semantic criteria. We argue that the meaning of [end by V] involves a specific type of epistemic modality related to expectation. We compare the periphrasis with the discourse particles afinal (EP) and alla fine (I), both etymologically related to a form meaning 'end', which can also express expectation-related modality and have been analyzed as epistemic modal operators sensitive to a temporal succession of epistemic states (Amaral and Del Prete 2016, 2017). To account for the semantic properties of [end by V], we propose a formal analysis of this periphrasis in which the 'end'-verb, combined with the 'by'-preposition, selects a property of eventualities P as argument and presupposes the existence of a sequence of events s-> . The periphrasis makes a twofold semantic contribution: (i) it asserts that a P-eventuality occurs at the end of the sequence s->, and (ii) it implies that the occurrence of the P-eventuality at the end of s-> is ranked below some alternative outcome on a likelihood/preference scale. We discuss the implications of our analysis for the study of epistemic modality.
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[SCCO.LING]Cognitive science/Linguistics; epistemic modality; event sequences; expectation; Romance languages; verbal periphrases
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URL: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02151379v3/document
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02151379
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02151379v3/file/paper.pdf
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Gender in conditionals
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In: ISSN: 0165-0157 ; EISSN: 1573-0549 ; Linguistics and Philosophy ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02095923 ; Linguistics and Philosophy, Springer Verlag, 2020 ; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10988-020-09307-6 (2020)
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‘Must’ implies ‘can’
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In: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03080446 ; 2020 (2020)
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A unified non monstrous semantics for third person pronouns
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In: ISSN: 1937-8912 ; Semantics and Pragmatics ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01338087 ; Semantics and Pragmatics, Linguistic Society of America, 2017, ⟨10.3765/sp.10.10⟩ (2017)
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Gender in conditionals
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In: Gender in conditionals ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01637178 ; Gender in conditionals, Nov 2017, Sheffield, United Kingdom (2017)
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Monsters begat by quantifiers?
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In: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00965284 ; 2014 (2014)
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Imperfectivity and habituality in Italian
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In: Genericity (2013)
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Genericity
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In: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00992403 ; Alda Mari, Claire Beyssade, Fabio Del Prete. France. Oxford University Press, pp.464, 2013, Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, 978-0-19-969180-7. ⟨10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199691807.001.0001⟩ (2013)
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Introduction
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In: Genericity ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00992406 ; Alda Mari, Claire Beyssade, Fabio Del Prete. Genericity, Oxford University Press, pp.1-92, 2012, Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, 978-0-19-969180-7. ⟨10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199691807.003.0001⟩ (2012)
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Introduction
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In: Genericity ; https://jeannicod.ccsd.cnrs.fr/ijn_02161789 ; Genericity, Oxford University Press, 2012, Genericity, 9780199691807 (2012)
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Approximating the limit: the interaction between 'almost' and some temporal connectives in Italian
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In: ISSN: 0165-0157 ; EISSN: 1573-0549 ; Linguistics and Philosophy ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00644703 ; Linguistics and Philosophy, Springer Verlag, 2010, 33 (2), pp.51-115. ⟨10.1007/s10988-010-9075-0⟩ (2010)
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The Puzzle of quasi prima 'almost before' and quasi dopo 'almost after'
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In: Semantics and Linguistic Theory; Proceedings of SALT 19; 19-36 ; 2163-5951 (2009)
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