expos é Laca (continuation) 2 juillet

[Bridget Copley]

Le projet "La causalité dans le langage et la cognition"  de la Fédération "Typologie et universaux du langage" (CNRS FR 2559) a le plaisir d'annoncer la deuxième partie d'un exposé : 

"Causes and wishes : Issues in the temporal configuration of subjunctive clauses," Brenda Laca (SFL)


Vendredi juin 14:30-16:30, CNRS site Pouchet (59 rue Pouchet, Paris 75017), salle à préciser
métro Guy Môquet ou Brochant, RER Porte de Clichy (sortie La Jonquière), bus 66


According to a distinction originally due to Stowell (1993) and subsequently exploited
by Quer (1998, 2006), “intensional subjunctives” – as opposed to “polarity subjunctives”
‐ are lexically selected by a semantic class of matrix predicates which also impose a
particular  (non-anterior or futurate) temporal orientation on their argument clauses: 
directives, causatives and volitionals.

Careful examination of the licit temporal configurations for subjunctive clauses  shows, however, that intensional subjunctives do not conform to a homogeneous pattern: in particular, the
argument clauses of “volitionals” deviate in manifold ways from the expected temporal
orientation and give rise in some cases to interpretive effects that parallel those found
with modal verbs, most notably as regards the distinction between epistemic and counterfactual 
construals. In this presentation, I explore the possibility of accounting for the behaviour
of “volitionals” by exploiting their double nature as evaluative propositional attitudes
and as dispositions to act (Kenny 1963, Heim 1992, Portner 1997).


handout : http://www.sfl.cnrs.fr/spip/sites/sfl/IMG/pdf/Causesandwishes0610hou.pdf

lectures suggérées : 
csli-publications.stanford.edu/pdf/1575862786.pdf
http://www.springerlink.com/content/lx2l084376030827/
http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/Publications,182.html



agenda sfl-cause : http://www.sfl.cnrs.fr/spip/Seminaire-2009-2010,864.html

agenda SFL : http://www.sfl.cnrs.fr/spip/-Agenda-.html

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