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SHOULD in Conditional Clauses: When Epistemicity Meets Appreciative Modality

  • Lionel Dufaye
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Epistemic Modalities and Evidentiality in Cross-Linguistic Perspective
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Abstract

Depending on the context, epistemic uses of SHOULD can take on two contradictory values. In main clauses, it expresses high probability (The plane should be on time), but in conditional clauses, SHOULD can only express improbability: If the plane should be delayed, please call. To account for this semantic shift, it will be hypothesized that SHOULD and IF (or any other conditional markers) refer to two distinct enunciative viewpoints. On the one hand, conditional clauses imply an enunciative disendorsement of the speaker, who does not validate the event denoted by the conditional; on the other hand SHOULD is always the expression of the speaker’s judgement. For instance Your husband should pull through is fine whereas ? Your husband should succumb to his injuries is problematic in the sense that with SHOULD the speaker qualifies the event as normal or expected according to her line of reasoning or her set of values. The two markers thus express conflicted forms of endorsement: the speaker’s appreciative modality with SHOULD, the speaker’s refusal to validate the event with IF.

Abstract

Depending on the context, epistemic uses of SHOULD can take on two contradictory values. In main clauses, it expresses high probability (The plane should be on time), but in conditional clauses, SHOULD can only express improbability: If the plane should be delayed, please call. To account for this semantic shift, it will be hypothesized that SHOULD and IF (or any other conditional markers) refer to two distinct enunciative viewpoints. On the one hand, conditional clauses imply an enunciative disendorsement of the speaker, who does not validate the event denoted by the conditional; on the other hand SHOULD is always the expression of the speaker’s judgement. For instance Your husband should pull through is fine whereas ? Your husband should succumb to his injuries is problematic in the sense that with SHOULD the speaker qualifies the event as normal or expected according to her line of reasoning or her set of values. The two markers thus express conflicted forms of endorsement: the speaker’s appreciative modality with SHOULD, the speaker’s refusal to validate the event with IF.

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  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Editorial Preface vii
  4. List of Contributors ix
  5. Part I: Germanic languages
  6. Epistemic modality, Danish modal verbs and the tripartition of utterances 3
  7. Epistemic evaluation in factual contexts in English 22
  8. SHOULD in Conditional Clauses: When Epistemicity Meets Appreciative Modality 52
  9. Part II: Romance languages
  10. Epistemic modality and evidentiality in Romance: the Reportive Conditional 69
  11. Epistemic modality and perfect morphology in Spanish and French 103
  12. Anchoring evidential, epistemic and beyond in discourse: alào, vantér and vér in Noirmoutier island (Poitevin-Saintongeais) 131
  13. A prosody account of (inter)subjective modal adverbs in Spanish 153
  14. French expressions of personal opinion: je crois / pense / trouve / estime / considère que p 179
  15. Mirative extensions in Romance: evidential or epistemic? 196
  16. The Italian epistemic future and Russian epistemic markers as linguistic manifestations of conjectural conclusion: a comparative analysis 217
  17. Epistemic modality, evidentiality, quotativity and echoic use 242
  18. Evidentiality, epistemic modality and negation in Lithuanian: revisited 259
  19. Part IV: Non Indo-European languages
  20. Two kinds of epistemic modality in Hungarian 281
  21. Epistemic modalities in spoken Tibetan 296
  22. Intersubjectification revisited: a cross-categorical perspective 319
  23. Inference crisscross: Disentangling evidence, stance and (inter)subjectivity in Yucatec Maya 346
  24. Part V: Theoretical perspectives
  25. Epistemic modality and evidentiality from an enunciative perspective 383
  26. About Contributors 403
  27. Author Index 409
  28. Subject Index 414
  29. Language Index 421
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110572261-003

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Editorial Preface vii
  4. List of Contributors ix
  5. Part I: Germanic languages
  6. Epistemic modality, Danish modal verbs and the tripartition of utterances 3
  7. Epistemic evaluation in factual contexts in English 22
  8. SHOULD in Conditional Clauses: When Epistemicity Meets Appreciative Modality 52
  9. Part II: Romance languages
  10. Epistemic modality and evidentiality in Romance: the Reportive Conditional 69
  11. Epistemic modality and perfect morphology in Spanish and French 103
  12. Anchoring evidential, epistemic and beyond in discourse: alào, vantér and vér in Noirmoutier island (Poitevin-Saintongeais) 131
  13. A prosody account of (inter)subjective modal adverbs in Spanish 153
  14. French expressions of personal opinion: je crois / pense / trouve / estime / considère que p 179
  15. Mirative extensions in Romance: evidential or epistemic? 196
  16. The Italian epistemic future and Russian epistemic markers as linguistic manifestations of conjectural conclusion: a comparative analysis 217
  17. Epistemic modality, evidentiality, quotativity and echoic use 242
  18. Evidentiality, epistemic modality and negation in Lithuanian: revisited 259
  19. Part IV: Non Indo-European languages
  20. Two kinds of epistemic modality in Hungarian 281
  21. Epistemic modalities in spoken Tibetan 296
  22. Intersubjectification revisited: a cross-categorical perspective 319
  23. Inference crisscross: Disentangling evidence, stance and (inter)subjectivity in Yucatec Maya 346
  24. Part V: Theoretical perspectives
  25. Epistemic modality and evidentiality from an enunciative perspective 383
  26. About Contributors 403
  27. Author Index 409
  28. Subject Index 414
  29. Language Index 421
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