Circumstantial indirectness : Future orientation of modals revised
| Autoři | |
|---|---|
| Rok publikování | 2024 |
| Druh | Stať ve sborníku |
| Konference | Proceedings of the 24th Amsterdam Colloquium |
| Fakulta / Pracoviště MU | |
| Citace | |
| www | https://platform.openjournals.nl/PAC/article/view/21845/23525 |
| Klíčová slova | temporal semantics; modal semantics; future orientation; metaphysical modality |
| Popis | Circumstantially interpreted modals are obligatorily future oriented. Standard accounts of this correlation rely on a condition demanding that the modal base must be diverse with respect to the prejacent proposition (e.g. Condoravdi 2002; Rullmann and Matthewson 2018; Williamson 2021). I present evidence against this account by showing that circumstantial "will" is veridical and compatible with full certainty of the prejacent. I develop an account on which future orientation of circumstantial modals results from an ‘indirectness presupposition’ that has been independently motivated for the epistemic domain (von Fintel and Gillies 2010). |