Semantic types of abstract entities

Hegarty, Michael

doi:10.1016/s0024-3841(02)00131-6

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“…Regarding the actual readings of these sentences -the fact that the subject denotes or is involved in a kind of eventuality or situation to which the predicate applies -we will argue that they are a consequence of the semantic selection made by the predicate. In accordance with proposals that predicates take a semantic category as one of their arguments (Asher 1993;Hegarty 2003;Rochette 1988), we argue that the SC and DP subjects in these sentences are the realization of a semantic category -a situation -selected by the predicate; the SC, being sentential, can denote a situation, while the DP could refer to a situation by virtue of the absence of some agreement features -this would allow shifting the literal denotation of the subject to a contextual property associated to the noun.…”

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“…Several studies have postulated different types of ontological categories to account for properties of arguments (Asher 1993;Hegarty, 2003;Rochette 1988). In these approaches, predicates take, as one of their arguments, a semantic category -a state, a proposition, an event, etc;and each category presents a particular type of syntactic realization.…”

Section: Abstract Entitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We adopt this view to frame our proposal in this paper. In order to make it clear, we will briefl y survey Hegarty's (2003) work on abstract entities.…”

Section: Abstract Entitiesmentioning

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“…The paper is organized as follows. Section 1 briefl y presents Hegarty's (2003) work about abstract entities. Section 2 discusses the properties of sentence (1a) and argues that its subject is a SC.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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On Denoting Abstract Entities

Foltran

Rodrigues

2013

RAbralin

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RESUMOEste trabalho examina construções copulares do português brasileiro, como (i) Maria bêbada é chato e (ii) Crianças é divertido, em que o predicado exibe uma forma não marcada para gênero e número (masculino singular), apesar da forma feminina e/ou plural do nome no constituinte em posição de sujeito. Defende-se que não é possível propor uma análise unifi cada para tais sentenças. No primeiro caso, a aparente falta de concordância é resultado da concordância neutra com uma small clause na posição de sujeito. No segundo, é resultado da presença de um DP defectivo com relação a traços de concordância. ABSTRACTThis work is concerned with copular clauses in Brazilian Portuguese, as in (i) Maria bêbada é chato 'Maria drunk is annoying' and (ii) Crianças é divertido 'children is fun', in which the predicate exhibits an unmarked form for gender and number (masculine singular), in spite of the feminine and/or plural forms of the nouns in the subject constituent. We claim that a unifi ed analysis is not available for such clauses. In the fi rst case, the mismatching agreement pattern is the result of a neuter agreement with a small clause subject. In the second case, the lack of agreement is due to the presence of a DP subject which lacks agreement features. 1 We are indebted to the audience of the Conference "(In)Defi nites and Weak Referentiality" for comments. We also wish to thank two anonymous reviewers for suggestions. On Denoting Abstract Entities 270 PALAVRAS-CHAVE Concordância neutra. Entidades abstratas. Semântica. Small-clauses. KEY WORDS Abstract Entities. Neutral Agreement. Semantics. Small Clauses.

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Section: Abstract Entitiesmentioning

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“…We adopt this view to frame our proposal in this paper. In order to make it clear, we will briefl y survey Hegarty's (2003) work on abstract entities.…”

Section: Abstract Entitiesmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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On Denoting Abstract Entities

Foltran

Rodrigues

2013

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“…In a series of papers, Hegarty (2003Hegarty ( , 2006 and Hegarty et al (2001Hegarty et al ( , 2003 studied abstract object anaphora from a semantic perspective. Generally speaking, all these studies coincide in that clausally-introduced entities are more commonly referred to with a demonstrative pronoun hence indicating that the cognitive status of these entities is activated.…”

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Topic-Continuity and Topic-Shift Effects in Spanish Discourse

Hernández

2016

Int Rev Pragmat

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Differences in use among referring expressions are usually explained on the basis of the cognitive accessibility of their antecedents, where antecedent accessibility has been operationalized differently in the literature; i.e. as a grammatical role, as syntactic prominence or as antecedent distance. On these grounds, it has been proposed that personal pronouns prefer topical antecedents whereas demonstratives prefer nontopical antecedents. This paper investigates the referring properties of Spanish demonstratives and direct object personal pronouns with the aim to unveil their differences and similarities. My analysis shows that these two expressions are very similar referentially when a narrow view of discourse context is considered. However, important differences show up when a broader notion of context is thrown into the picture; i.e. contexts that extend beyond the immediate previous sentence and beyond the immediate local topic of discourse. Based on my corpus evidence and on previous research on the pragmatic interpretation of referring expressions, I claim that direct object personal pronouns and demonstrative noun phrases crucially differ in the way they contribute to discourse coherence; the former playing the role of topic continuity markers and the latter focalising referents that reintroduce suspended or declining topics and marking (sub)-topic shifts in the discourse.

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A denotation-driven reanalysis of the Spanish neuter pronominal system

Hernández

2018

Lingua

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Semantic types of abstract entities

Cited by 14 publications

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On Denoting Abstract Entities

On Denoting Abstract Entities

Topic-Continuity and Topic-Shift Effects in Spanish Discourse

A denotation-driven reanalysis of the Spanish neuter pronominal system

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