Modal meaning in Construction Grammar

Embodied Construction Grammar As Layered Modal Languages

The Meaning of Reference in Embodied Construction Grammar

The ECG formalism is quite general, specifying only the ways to write and combine the four basic structure types: schemas, constructions, maps, and spaces. Grammars in ECG are deeply cognitive, with meaning being expressed in terms of conceptual primitives such as image schemas, force dynamics, etc. The hypothesis is that a modest number of universal primitives will suffice to provide the core ...

The Construction Meaning of Interrogatives: Evidence From Embodied Grammar

In formal semantics polar interrogatives are often conceived as pairs of a proposition and its negation (Hamblin 1958). While allowing for interesting research, this view lacks plausible cognitive grounding. We therefore propose that propositional contents are represented by pairs of situation tokens and situation types: In positive declaratives the token fits (or fails to fit) the type, in int...

the grammar of meaning and meaning of the grammar

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Non-Propositional Modal Meaning

The semantics of evidentials is often analyzed as a subcase or a special case of modality in the recent formal literature (Izvorski, 1997; Faller, 2002; Speas, to appear; McCready and Ogata, 2005, among others). Moreover, some modern linguists consider the analysis of modality as a subcase of evidential or a speech act modifier (Papafragou 2000; Huddleston and Pullum 2002; Drubig 2001, among ot...