[Lingtyp] "I-now-here"
Juergen Bohnemeyer
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Mon Sep 13 14:01:21 UTC 2021
Dear Kilu and Tasaku — Well, the context-dependence of modality is formalized in Angelika Kratzer’s work, for example here:
Kratzer, A. 1977. What `must’ and `can’ must and can mean. Linguistics and Philosophy 1: 337-355.
---- 1981. The notional category of modality. In H. J. Eikmeyer & H. Rieser (Eds.), Words, worlds, and contexts. Berlin: de Gruyter. 38-74.
---- 1991. Modality. In A. von Stechow & D. Wunderlich (Eds.), Semantics: An international handbook of contemporary research. Berlin: de Gruyter. 639–650.
There is in fact a typological twist to this angle, as noted in the following works:
Matthewson, L. (2013). Gitskan modals. International Journal of American Linguistics 79:349-394.
Rullmann, H., L. Matthewson, & H. Davis (2008). Modals as distributive indefinites. Natural Language Semantics 16:317-357.
Best — Juergen
> On Sep 13, 2021, at 6:45 AM, Kilu von Prince <Kilu.Prince at hhu.de> wrote:
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> Dear Tasaku,
>
> Carlota Smith appeals to the pragmatics of deictic immediacy in interpreting tense and aspect. I make a similar move for the semantics of modals in some of my published works, see references.
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> Best,
> Kilu
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> von Prince, Kilu. 2017 (preprint). Paradigm-induced implicatures of TAM markers: The case of the Daakaka distal. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21.
> K. von Prince. Counterfactuality and past. Linguistics and Philosophy, pages 577–615, May 2019. https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flink.springer.com%2Farticle%2F10.1007%2Fs10988-019-09259-6&data=04%7C01%7Cjb77%40buffalo.edu%7Cc51238d1288241d8103b08d976a39ba2%7C96464a8af8ed40b199e25f6b50a20250%7C0%7C0%7C637671267911907002%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=zmUmlp240QubeEKC%2BbE3WP4%2FaV4kvkX5Ef8tJhWejsM%3D&reserved=0
> C. Smith. Tense and aspect: Time across languages. In C. Maienborn, K. von Heusinger, and P. Portner, editors, Semantics: An International Handbook of Meaning, volume 33, chapter 97, pages 2581–2608. de Gruyter, 2012.
> C. Smith, E. Perkins, and T. Fernald. Time in Navajo: Direct and indirect interpretation. International Journal of American Linguistics, 73(1):40–71, 2007.
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> On 13. Sep 2021, at 11:40, Mike Morgan <mwmbombay at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Am also not sure if this is what Tasaku-san is looking for or not, Juergen, but ONE way to get from Bühler (1934) to modals is via Roman Jakobson's 1957 seminal article “Shifters, verbal categories, and the Russian verb”.
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> On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 6:24 PM Juergen Bohnemeyer <jb77 at buffalo.edu> wrote:
> Dear Tasaku — Bühler (1934) proposes a highly influential theory of linguistic indexicality or ‘deixis’ (he coined the term), or really an entire theory of language that revolves around a theory of indexicality as its centerpiece. The theory postulates three types of deictic expressions: those expressing person deixis, spatial deixis, and temporal deixis. (Fillmore 1997 [1975] later proposed that honorific and redressive expressions should be considered as constituting a fourth type, which he called ‘social' deixis; however, while there are important similarities between such expressions and Bühlerian deictics, there are also considerable differences between how such expressions function and how deictic expressions in Bühler’s sense function, as discussed in Bohnemeyer 2015.) Bühler visualized these as three dimensions of a coordinate system that is centered on the speaker and the place and time of utterance. He used the term ‘jetzt-hier-ich origo’ (’now-here-I origo’) for the origin point of this coordinate system.
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> (Bühler was massively influenced by the ‘phenomenological’ philosophy of Edmund Husserl. As Husserl attempted to build an epistemology based on the contents of subjective experience, so Bühler was fascinated by how grammars and lexicons encode subjective experience.)
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> I don’t know whether this is what you had in mind. I can’t think of any obvious connection to the study of modality.
>
> HTH! — Juergen
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> Bohnemeyer, J. 2015. Deixis. In J. D. Wright (editor-in-chief), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, Vol 6. Oxford: Elsevier. 52–57.
> Bühler, K., 1934. Sprachtheorie (Language Theory). G Fischer, Jena.
> Fillmore, C.J., 1997[1975]. Lectures on Deixis. CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA. Republication of Fillmore, C.J. Santa Cruz Lectures on Deixis 1971. Indiana University Linguistics Club, Bloomington, IN (1975).
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>> On Sep 12, 2021, at 6:28 PM, TasakuTsunoda <tasakutsunoda at nifty.com> wrote:
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>> Dear Colleagues,
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>> Re: “I-now-here”
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>> Would anyone enlighten me, please?
>> I understand the concept of “I-now-here” plays an important role in studies of modality. Would anyone please given me advice on the following?
>>
>> (a) Who proposed “I-now-here” first? In what work?
>> (b) Are there any other works that discuss “I-now-here”?
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>> Best wishes and thanking you in advance,
>>
>> Tasaku Tsunoda
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