Misfits: On Unexpected German Ob-Predicates
- German subjectively veridical sicher sein ‘be certain’ can embed ob-clauses in negative contexts, while subjectively veridical glauben ‘believe’ and nonveridical möglich sein ‘be possible’ cannot. The Logical Form of F isn’t certain if M is in Rome is regarded as the negated disjunction of two sentences ¬(cf σ ∨ cf ¬σ) or ¬cf σ ∧ ¬cf ¬σ. Be certain can have this LF because ¬cf σ and ¬cf ¬σ are compatible and nonveridical. Believe excludes this LF because ¬bf σ and ¬bf ¬σ are incompatible in a question-under-discussion context. It follows from this incompatibility and from the incompatibility of bf σ and bf ¬σ that bf ¬σ and ¬bf σ are equivalent. Therefore believe cannot be nonveridical. Be possible doesn’t allow the LF either. Similar to believe, ¬pf σ and ¬pf ¬σ are incompatible. But unlike believe, pf σ and pf ¬σ are compatible.
Author: | Kerstin SchwabeGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-97931 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-59565-7_13 |
ISBN: | 978-3-662-59564-0 |
Parent Title (English): | Language, Logic, and Computation. 12th International Tbilisi Symposium, TbiLLC 2017, Lagodekhi, Georgia, September 18-22, 2017, Revised Selected Papers |
Series (Serial Number): | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (11456) |
Publisher: | Springer |
Place of publication: | Berlin [u.a.] |
Editor: | Alexandra Silva, Sam Staton, Peter Sutton, Carla Umbach |
Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
Language: | English |
Year of first Publication: | 2019 |
Date of Publication (online): | 2020/04/30 |
Publicationstate: | Postprint |
Reviewstate: | Peer-Review |
Tag: | Contrary and complementary opposites; German interrogative embedding predicates; Neg-raising |
GND Keyword: | Einbettung <Linguistik>; Formale Semantik; Interrogativlogik; Prädikat; ob <Wort> |
First Page: | 253 |
Last Page: | 274 |
Note: | This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in "Language, Logic, and Computation, 12th International Tbilisi Symposium". The final authenticated version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-59565-7_13 |
DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 430 Deutsch |
Open Access?: | ja |
BDSL-Classification: | Grammatik |
Linguistics-Classification: | Semantik |
Licence (German): | Urheberrechtlich geschützt |