Mixed (Non)veridicality and mood choice with emotive verbs

Anastasia Giannakidou (1) , Alda Mari (2)

1 University of Chicago
2 IJN - Institut Jean-Nicod

The paper proposes a fresh look at emotive factives and explains variation in mood choice across languages by distinguishing nonveridicality in the assertion (triggering the subjunctive) and veridicality in the presupposition (triggering the indicative). Proceeding of CLS 51, April 2015.

Mots clés: indicative mood; Subjunctive mood

Domaines: Linguistique

Anastasia Giannakidou, Alda Mari. Mixed (Non)veridicality and mood choice with emotive verbs. CLS 51, Apr 2015, Chicago, France. ⟨ijn_01181251⟩