On truth persistence

Amaral, Patrícia; Prete, Fabio Del

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“…This does not exactly mean that all the uses that might be covered by the label "continuous" coincide exactly. For example, the use of E(uropean) P(ortuguese) sempre analyzed by Amaral and Del Prete (2014) bears some resemblance with the continuative use of siempre than I am addressing, but, at the same time, there are important differences between them. These authors interpret non-temporal uses of EP sempre as cases of truth persistence, in the sense than they express the overt confirmation of some previously asserted or conveyed content.…”

Section: The Continuous Interpretationmentioning

confidence: 89%

“…As far as my analysis of siempre is concerned, it must be emphasized that it is the same adverb that gives rise to apparently opposite situations (truth persistence vs. truth unpersistence), suggesting that, if one attempts to adapt these analyses to Spanish, at least one of the two interpretations will have to be discarded. I am not opposed to the idea that there might be some relationship between the concessive-adversative reading of siempre and Amaral and Del Prete's (2014, 2016, 2020 theory on truth (un)persistence, but my analysis of siempre focuses on distinguishing what is shared from what is not shared by the different interpretations of siempre. It is also linked to the much-studied relationship between continuative and adversative uses of the same adverbs in Romance and other languages, as well as the (extensively analyzed) relationship that the former maintain with the concept of "expectation".…”

Section: The Concessive-adversative Interpretationmentioning

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Four Dialectal Uses of the Adverb Siempre and Their Grammatical Properties

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This article analyzes four interpretations of the adverb siempre ‘always’ that do not belong to general Spanish. The continuative and the progressive-comparative interpretations are argued to be calques of Italian, often attested in Rioplatense Spanish. In the first one, siempre is equivalent to Eng. still or ‘continue to + infinitive’, while in the second one it admits paraphrases with more and more, less and less, and the adverbs gradually and progressively. The third interpretation, in which siempre is roughly equivalent to after all, finally, and ‘end up + gerund’, will be argued to be concessive-adversative. This reading is more frequent in Mexico and Central America, but it is also attested in other American countries. The fourth reading is the attenuated interpretation, registered in part of the Andean area. In this meaning, siempre is equivalent to roughly or so so. It is argued that, with the possible exception of the last reading (whose origin is insecure), these different meanings of siempre coincide in the interpretation of this adverb as a universal quantifier, while they differ in the semantic nature of the quantified variable.

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Four Dialectal Uses of the Adverb Siempre and Their Grammatical Properties

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2024

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Predicting the end: Epistemic change in Romance

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2020

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This paper analyzes a verbal periphrasis in European Portuguese (EP) and Italian (I), formed by a verb meaning 'to end', a 'by'-preposition and a verb in the infinitive form (V). We show that this periphrasis-for short, [end by V]-behaves differently from the aspectual terminative periphrasis formed with the verb end, by focusing on three semantic criteria. We argue that the meaning of [end by V] involves a specific type of epistemic modality related to expectation. We compare the periphrasis with the discourse particles afinal (EP) and alla fine (I), both etymologically related to a form meaning 'end', which can also express expectationrelated modality and have been analyzed as epistemic modal operators sensitive to a temporal succession of epistemic states (Amaral & Del Prete 2016, 2017). To account for the semantic properties of [end by V], we propose a formal analysis of this periphrasis in which the 'end'-verb, combined with the 'by'-preposition, selects a property of eventualities P as argument and presupposes the existence of a sequence of events s → . The periphrasis makes a twofold semantic contribution: (i) it asserts that a P-eventuality occurs at the end of the sequence s → , and (ii) it implies that the occurrence of the P-eventuality at the end of s → is ranked below some alternative outcome on a likelihood/preference scale. We discuss the implications of our analysis for the study of epistemic modality.

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On truth persistence

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Four Dialectal Uses of the Adverb Siempre and Their Grammatical Properties

Four Dialectal Uses of the Adverb Siempre and Their Grammatical Properties

Predicting the end: Epistemic change in Romance

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