Situation types in complementation: Oromo attitude predication
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چکیده
Though languages show rich variation in the clausal embedding strategies employed attitude reports, most mainstream formal semantic theories of attitudes assume that complement an verb contributes at least a proposition to semantics. The goal this paper is contribute growing cross-linguistic perspective by providing analyses for two found with verbs Oromo (Cushitic): verbal nominalization, and under akka 'as'. We argue exemplifies system which non-speech uniformly embed situations rather than propositions, thereby expanding empirical landscape reports ways: (i) propositions are both ontological primitives used construction (ii) like do heavy lifting, contributing "proposition" propositional attitudes.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Semantics and Linguistic Theory
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2163-5943', '2163-5951']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v30i0.4806