Adjectival 'as'-phrases as intensional secondary predicates

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  • Sarah Zobel University of Tuebingen

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https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v26i0.3876

Abstract

This paper focuses on adjectival as-phrases that co-occur with transitive verbs, and contribute additional information on the verb's internal arguments. I claim that these as-phrases behave like secondary predicates, specifically object-oriented depictives, but – in contrast to object-oriented depictives – contribute intensional content, a modal property. In the course of the paper, I delimit the type of as-phrases that are covered in this paper, and propose a formal analysis for these cases that builds on results by Rothstein (2003) on object-oriented depictives, and the notion of information-based modality in Kratzer 2012. I show how the analysis captures the entailment patterns found with these as-phrases, and how it can be extended to related nominal as-phrases.

Author Biography

  • Sarah Zobel, University of Tuebingen
    German Department, PostDoc; currently substitute professor at the English Department, University of Goettingen

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2016-10-15

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