11. Complex predicates with -te gerundive verbs

Nakatani, Kentaro

doi:10.1515/9781614512097-015

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Basics About Japanese Desire Predicates1

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“…When the subject is animate, the use of the nominative triggers an exhaustive focus interpretation (e.g., in (8b), the sentence would roughly mean 'I want John, not anybody else, to eat this'). For more discussion on the mechanism behind such case alternation, see Kuno 1973 andNakatani 2016. These concerns are not important to the present paper.…”

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Past-as-Past in counterfactual desire reports: a view from Japanese

Mizuno¹,

Kaufmann²

2022

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The semantic contribution of Fake Past in counterfactual expressions has been actively debated in recent semantic literature. This study deepens our current understanding of this natural language phenomenon by digging into the behavior of Past tense in Japanese counterfactual desire reports. We show that the Past-as-Past approach to Fake Past makes correct predictions about its semantic behavior.

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confidence: 95%