The Semantics of Mood , Complementation , and Conversational Force
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significance. In the first two sections the subject matter and background assumptions of the study are specified. Section 3 outlines the syntactic distribution and conversational force of the indicative and subjective (in English and Italian), infinitives, and ‘mood-indicating’ modal may. Then section 4 gives a formal theory which predicts the operators under which each mood may be embedded. Finally, section 5 shows how the ideas developed thus far yield an improved understanding of non-assertive sentences.
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تاریخ انتشار 1997