We will meet on Thursday, October 27 at 1pm in Bousfield A101-A.
Teru Mizuno will present some ongoing dissertation research. See title, abstract and suggested background reading below.
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Title: Composing counterfactual desire reports
Abstract: Counterfactual desire reports, expressed for instance by English ‘wish‘, describe one’s desires whose attainment is deemed unlikely or impossible at the actual world. Building on cross-linguistic comparison across languages, especially, English, Greek, Spanish, Slovenian and Japanese, I propose a novel, fine-grained compositional account of counterfactual desire reports.
Suggested reading:
von Fintel and Iatridou (2022) ‘Prolegomena to a theory of X-marking’ (http://lingphil.scripts.mit.edu/papers/iatridou/fintel-iatridou-2020-x.pdf)