Genericity 2012
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199691807.003.0009
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Ability, Action, and Causation: From Pure Ability to Force∗

Abstract: In this paper, we show that Greek distinguishes empirically ability as a precondition for action, and ability as initiating and sustaining force for action. In this latter case, the ability verb behaves like an action verb, and the sentence has the logical form of a causative structure φ CAUSE [BECOME ψ] (Dowty 1979). The distinction between ability as potential for action and ability as action itself has a venerable tradition that goes back to Aristotle, and is recently implied in a number of analyses (

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“…Discutimos aspectos importantes de análises prévias sobre predicados desse tipo (Brennan, 1993;Hackl, 1998;Giannakidou e Staraki, 2013), os quais substanciaram a nossa análise. Particularmente, caracterizamos -vel como um sufixo de caráter disposicional.…”
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“…Discutimos aspectos importantes de análises prévias sobre predicados desse tipo (Brennan, 1993;Hackl, 1998;Giannakidou e Staraki, 2013), os quais substanciaram a nossa análise. Particularmente, caracterizamos -vel como um sufixo de caráter disposicional.…”
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“…Um tipo de modalidade menos debatida e compreendida, a modalidade dinâmica, diz respeito a habilidades, disposições, tendências e susceptibilidades (Von Wright, 1951;Palmer, 1986;Brennan, 1993;Hackl, 1998;Portner, 2009;Giannakidou e Staraki, 2013). O termo modalidade dinâmica é atribuído por Palmer (1986) Brennan (1993, p. 8), o uso de will expressa, nesse contexto, "a disposição de se comportar de determinada maneira".…”
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