Subjective construal and factual interpretation in sentential complements

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. i-iv i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Section I: Large theoretical issues
6. Subjectification, grammaticization, and conceptual archetypes 17
7. Logic, subjectivity, and the semantics/pragmatics distinction 41
8. Toward a typology of linguistic subjectivity: A cognitive and cross-linguistic approach to grammaticalized deixis 75
9. Section II: Case studies I – Modals and modality
10. Subjectification in (expressions of) epistemic modality and the development of the grounding predication 121
11. Langacker’s ‘subjectification’ and ‘grounding’: A more gradual view 151
12. Conceptual and constructional considerations on the subjectivity of English and Spanish modals 177
13. Section III: Case studies II – Adjectives
14. Adjectives and subjectivity 209
15. Grammaticalization and subjectification of the English adjectives of general comparison 241
16. Subjectification in gradable adjectives 279
17. Section IV: Syntax and semantics
18. On subjectivity and ‘long distance Wh-movement’ 323
19. Subjective construal and factual interpretation in sentential complements 347
20. Zero in syntax, ten in pragmatics: Subjectification as syntactic cancellation 375
21. Author index 399
22. Subject index 405
23. 409-410 409