31.361, Books: The Semantics of Opinion: Bervoets

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Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 16:15:52
From: Laura de Kreij [Laura.dekreij at Springernature.com]
Subject: The Semantics of Opinion: Bervoets

 
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 16:15:53
From: Laura de Kreij [Laura.dekreij at Springernature.com]
Subject: The Semantics of Opinion: Bervoets

 


Title: The Semantics of Opinion 
Subtitle: Attitudes, Expression, Free Choice, and Negation 
Series Title: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Springer
	   http://www.springer.com
	

Book URL: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789402417463 


Author: Melanie Bervoets

Electronic: ISBN:  9789402417470 Pages: 192 Price: Europe EURO 71.68
Hardback: ISBN:  9789402417463 Pages: 192 Price: Europe EURO 92.64


Abstract:

This volume sets out to provide a semantics for the "future-directed opining
verbs", a novel class whose members are used to describe subjects' externally
attested opinions toward future possibilities. Including verbs like recommend,
promise, and permit, the class can be situated within a broader range of
opinion verbs, including the well-known propositional attitudes, and key to
the investigation here are differences among these groups along the lines of
available event types, interaction with the common ground, and restrictions on
subjects and objects. Other important semantic topics implicated in the
discussion are dispositions, free choice disjunction, and Neg-raising/embedded
NPI licensing, and the host of new data associated with the future-directed
opining verbs prompts surveys of the expanded scope of these phenomena, and
corresponding re-evaluation of existing theories. Collectively, the
contributions of this work deepen our understanding of predicates that
describe opinion and disposition, and how these interact with fundamental
logical operations like negation and disjunction, highlighting the crucial
role of contextual factors like relevance for these processes.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Ling & Literature
                     Semantics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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