Who controls who (or what)

Kaufmann, Magdalena

doi:10.3765/salt.v29i0.4643

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“…For such an approach, we can look to Kaufmann (2019). Kaufmann proposes an explicit semanticpragmatic theory of a related phenomenon: directive obviation.…”

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“…Halm (2019), which predatesKaufmann (2019), does not link his observations to obviation. I thank an anonymous reviewer for directing me to Halm's work.26 First-personal encouragements are irrevocably unacceptable even if the subject does not bear RESP; nyugodtan cannot be added to the non-RESP examples.…”

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“…The discussion centers on new data from Hungarian and does not attempt to provide final answers or a novel formalization. However, it pays close attention to pertinent semantic and pragmatic literature (Searle 1969;Shoemaker 1996;Schlenker 2005;Kaufmann 2019; and makes critical use of it.…”

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“…Section 6 turns to promising semantic and pragmatic approaches. Kaufmann (2019; proposes an account of obviation in directives (imperatives that are inflected for person and number). She attributes obviation to a clash between the director's uncertainty regarding the truth of the imperative proposition and, if the director is identical to the instigator of the event in the imperative, the same person's certainty that this proposition will be true in all the relevant worlds.…”

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“…If they exhibit effects that belong under the same larger umbrella as classical subjunctive obviation, then competition cannot be the critical factor. Starting with Section 6, a semantic-pragmatic explanation will be sought, inspired by Kaufmann (2019).…”

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Obviation in Hungarian: what is its scope, and is it due to competition?

Szabolcsi

2021

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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According to the classical description of obviation, the subject of a subjunctive is disjoint in reference from the attitude-holder subject of the immediately higher clause. *Je veux que je parte. I want that I leave.SUBJ ‘I want for me to leave’ Inspired by Ruwet (1984/1991) and Farkas (1988; 1992), I present data from Hungarian where obviation in certain subjunctives is plainly lifted, and data where obviation occurs in indicatives. I argue that obviation is not the result of competition with another construction, and point to promising potential accounts in terms of a clash in semantics or pragmatics. My aim is to contribute desiderata for a theory of obviation and exemptions from obviation in fairly informal terms.

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“…For such an approach, we can look to Kaufmann (2019). Kaufmann proposes an explicit semanticpragmatic theory of a related phenomenon: directive obviation.…”

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Szabolcsi

2021

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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Perspective and the Self in Experiential Attitude Reports

Liefke

2024

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Performative updates and the modeling of speech acts

Krifka

2024

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This paper develops a way to model performative speech acts within a framework of dynamic semantics. It introduces a distinction between performative and informative updates, where informative updates filter out indices of context sets (cf. Stalnaker, Cole (ed), Pragmatics, Academic Press, 1978), whereas performative updates change their indices (cf. Szabolcsi, Kiefer (ed), Hungarian linguistics, John Benjamins, 1982). The notion of index change is investigated in detail, identifying implementations by a function or by a relation. Declarations like the meeting is (hereby) adjourned are purely performative updates that just enforce an index change on a context set. Assertions like the meeting is (already) adjourned are analyzed as combinations of a performative update that introduces a guarantee of the speaker for the truth of the proposition, and an informative update that restricts the context set so that this proposition is true. The first update is the illocutionary act characteristic for assertions; the second is the primary perlocutionary act, and is up for negotiations with the addressee. Several other speech acts will be discussed, in particular commissives, directives, exclamatives, optatives, and definitions, which are all performative, and differ from related assertions. The paper concludes a discussion of locutionary acts, which are modelled as index changers as well, and proposes a novel analysis for the performative marker hereby.

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Who controls who (or what)

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Obviation in Hungarian: what is its scope, and is it due to competition?

Obviation in Hungarian: what is its scope, and is it due to competition?

Perspective and the Self in Experiential Attitude Reports

Performative updates and the modeling of speech acts

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