Sentential complementation of adjectives in French

Léger, Catherine

doi:10.1075/la.153.08leg

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“…( This assumption concurs with a cross-linguistic trend for modal adjectives to behave as unaccusative predicates (see, for instance, Cinque's (1990) proposal that English epistemic adjectives, such as probable, select an internal argument). Thus, Léger (2006) and Meltzer-Asscher (2011), following Rochette (1988), propose to distinguish between propositional adjectives (for instance, modals), which "express judgments having to do with the truth value of a proposition or its epistemological status", and non-propositional or 'eventive' adjectives (for instance, adjectives of emotional evaluation), which "express subjective judgments regarding an event, or the reaction it evokes in its surroundings" (Meltzer-Asscher 2011:175).…”

Section: Deontic Modals As Unaccusativesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Raising and control in non-finite clausal complementation

Burukina¹

2019

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I would like to express my gratitude to the people without whom this thesis would not exist.First and foremost, I would like to thank my supervisor, Marcel den Dikken, for all his intellectual and moral support. He has always been there when I needed his help and I owe to him most of what I know about syntax. He inspired me with his knowledge of linguistics and never-ending interest in seemingly all linguistic topics, and I could have never made it to this point without his guidance.I am immensely grateful to my committee: Krisztina Szécsényi, Maria Polinsky, Éva Dékány and Mark Newson, who have always been willing to read numerous versions of the thesis and whose questions and commentaries made the final work possible. If there are any good ideas in this thesis they were inspired by these people.I am lucky to have had the opportunity to meet and talk to incredible people whose ideas and suggestions inspired me and contributed to this project. Of the many people who helped me along the way, I am extremely thankful to Katalin É. Kiss, Balázs Surányi, Scott

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Section: Deontic Modals As Unaccusativesmentioning

confidence: 99%