Do modals take propositions or sets of propositions? Evidence from Japanese darou
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| Publication date | 2018 |
| Journal | Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory |
| Event | 28th Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference |
| Volume | Issue number | 28 |
| Pages (from-to) | 809-829 |
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| Abstract | The Japanese modal particle darou can take either a declarative or an interrogative prejacent (Hara 2006; Hara & Davis 2013). We point out, however, that its interrogative-embedding use cannot be reduced to its declarative-embedding use. This is problematic under the standard assumption that modal operators always apply to propositions, but not under more recent proposals which take modal op- erators to apply to sets of propositions. We develop a detailed account of darou, capturing its non-reductive nature as well as its puzzling interaction with intonation (Hara 2015). |
| Document type | Article |
| Note | Proceedings of the 28th Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge May 18-20, 2018, edited by Sireemas Maspong, Brynhildur Stefánsdóttir, Katherine Blake and Forrest Davis. |
| Language | English |
| Published at | https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v28i0.4427 |
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