this paper investigates different kinds of control predicates in persian subjunctive complements. first, it is shown that the obligatory control (oc) constructions syntactically consist of two subtypes exhaustive control (ec) and non-exhaustive control (nec). then building upon jackendoff and culicover (2003) and culicover and jackendoff’s (2005) semantic analysis of control which is devoted to...

mood is, in general, a meaning concept that indicates the speaker’s point of view about a proposition. there are different modal elements in each language to embody a mood; in other words, different languages have variety of methods to express modal concepts. using verbal moods is one of these methods. verbal mood represents the morphology of a verb and can hence be considered as a grammatical ...

Abstract In a recent paper, Sprenger advances what he calls “suppositional” answer to the question of why Bayesian agent’s degrees belief should align with probabilities found in statistical models. I show that Sprenger’s account trades on an ambiguity between hypothetical and subjunctive suppositions cannot succeed once we distinguish two.

Evidential and Causal Decision Theory are the leading contenders as theories of rational action, but both face fatal counterexamples. We present some new counterexamples, including one in which the optimal action is causally dominated. We also present a novel decision theory, Functional Decision Theory (fdt), which simultaneously solves both sets of counterexamples. Instead of considering which...

Abstract The causative construction poses a challenge to all mainstream approaches Spanish mood. Mejías-Bikandi, Errapel. 2014. A cognitive account of mood in complements predicates Spanish. Hispania 97(4), 651–665, elaborating on his previous approach (Mejías-Bikandi, 1998. Presupposition and old information the use subjunctive 81(4), 941–948), which associates indicative that is pragmatically...