Truth and veridicality in grammar and thought : mood, modality, and propositional attitudes /
Can language directly access what is true, or is the truth judgment affected by the subjective, perhaps even solipsistic, constructs of reality built by the speakers of that language? The construction of such subjective representations is known as veridicality, and in this book Anastasia Giannakidou...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
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[2021]
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| Summary: | Can language directly access what is true, or is the truth judgment affected by the subjective, perhaps even solipsistic, constructs of reality built by the speakers of that language? The construction of such subjective representations is known as veridicality, and in this book Anastasia Giannakidou and Alda Mari deftly address the interaction between truth and veridicality in the grammatical phenomena of mood choice, the indicative and subjunctive choice in the complements of modal expressions (words like must, may, can and possible) and propositional attitude verbs (such as know, believe, remember, dream and persuade). Combining several strands of analysis-formal linguistic semantics, syntactic theory, modal logic and philosophy of language, Giannakidou and Mari's theory not only enriches the analysis of linguistic modality, but also offers a unified perspective of modals and propositional attitudes. Their synthesis covers mood, modality and attitude verbs in Greek and Romance languages including Italian and French, while also offering broader applications for languages lacking systematic mood distinction, such as English, and explaining interactions between modality, time and evidentiality. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [321]-335) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226763200 022676320X 9780226763347 022676334X |