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Misfits: On Unexpected German Ob-Predicates

  • German subjectively veridical sicher sein ‘be certain’ can embed ob-clauses in negative contexts, while subjectively veridical glauben ‘believe’ and nonveridical möglich sein ‘be possible’ cannot. The Logical Form of F isn’t certain if M is in Rome is regarded as the negated disjunction of two sentences ¬(cf σ ∨ cf ¬σ) or ¬cf σ ∧ ¬cf ¬σ. Be certain can have this LF because ¬cf σ and ¬cf ¬σ are compatible and nonveridical. Believe excludes this LF because ¬bf σ and ¬bf ¬σ are incompatible in a question-under-discussion context. It follows from this incompatibility and from the incompatibility of bf σ and bf ¬σ that bf ¬σ and ¬bf σ are equivalent. Therefore believe cannot be nonveridical. Be possible doesn’t allow the LF either. Similar to believe, ¬pf σ and ¬pf ¬σ are incompatible. But unlike believe, pf σ and pf ¬σ are compatible.

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Author:Kerstin SchwabeGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-97931
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-59565-7_13
ISBN:978-3-662-59564-0
Parent Title (English):Language, Logic, and Computation. 12th International Tbilisi Symposium, TbiLLC 2017, Lagodekhi, Georgia, September 18-22, 2017, Revised Selected Papers
Series (Serial Number):Lecture Notes in Computer Science (11456)
Publisher:Springer
Place of publication:Berlin [u.a.]
Editor:Alexandra Silva, Sam Staton, Peter Sutton, Carla Umbach
Document Type:Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2019
Date of Publication (online):2020/04/30
Publicationstate:Postprint
Reviewstate:Peer-Review
Tag:Contrary and complementary opposites; German interrogative embedding predicates; Neg-raising
GND Keyword:Einbettung <Linguistik>; Formale Semantik; Interrogativlogik; Prädikat; ob <Wort>
First Page:253
Last Page:274
Note:
This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in "Language, Logic, and Computation, 12th International Tbilisi Symposium". The final authenticated version is available online at: 
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-59565-7_13
DDC classes:400 Sprache / 430 Deutsch
Open Access?:ja
BDSL-Classification:Grammatik
Linguistics-Classification:Semantik
Licence (German):License LogoUrheberrechtlich geschützt