conférence BORGONOVO 19/5

[Bridget Copley]

Le programme "Temporalité: Typologie et Acquisition" (temptypac) de la  
Fédération "Typologie et Universaux Linguistiques" du CNRS a le  
plaisir d'annoncer un exposé* :

Claudia Borgonovo (Université Laval)
"Tense, aspect, and modality in Spanish and French"

Date : lundi 19 mai 2008
Lieu : 59 rue Pouchet, salle 159
Heure : 14h00-16h00 (*heure exceptionnelle)
Métro : ligne 13, Guy Moquet ou Brochant

*Cet exposé remplace l'exposé de Patrick Caudal qui avait était prévu.

Un plan d'accès se trouve à :
http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/article.php3?id_article=86

Vous pouvez consulter le site web de temptypac à :
http://www.ivry.cnrs.fr/~7023web/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=31


Résumé :
In this talk I investigate the interaction of tense, perfectivity and  
modality in Spanish and French, languages in which modal verbs exhibit  
full tense and aspect distinctions. I examine the possible  
interpretations of  past indicative tenses, perfective and  
imperfective, on the modals of possibility and obligation.  
Imperfective tenses exhibit the expected modalized readings but  
perfective past tenses have unexpected entailments and implicatures,  
involving the (non) realisation of the embedded event. In Spanish  
there are three readings with a preterit modal: epistemic, implicative  
and counterfactual; only the first one has the expected averidicality  
of modals. French exhibits the first two but lacks the counterfactual  
reading, absent also in the Spanish perfecto. The semantic and  
pragmatic ingredients responsible for these readings are analyzed. I  
appeal to the relative scoping of the different operators, Kratzer’s  
(1991) theory of modality, and the effect of the modal on the domain  
of quantification to explain these readings. The analysis is confirmed  
by the interaction of Tense, Modality and Negation. The absence of the  
counterfactual reading in the French passé composé and the Spanish  
perfecto is explained by their semantics, which adds a persistent  
state incompatible with counterfactuality.


Un plan d'accès se trouve à :
http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/article.php3?id_article=86

Vous pouvez consulter le site web de temptypac à :
http://www.ivry.cnrs.fr/~7023web/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=31




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