Epistemic Necessity Modality and Presupposition

• 발행기관: 한국영어학학회
• 저자명: Mean-Young Song
• 간행물 정보: 『영어학연구』영어학연구 제17권 3호, 111~142쪽, 전체 32쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2011.04.03

영문 초록

Necessity modality is semantically characterized by the fact that it is involved in universal quantification. This paper points out some problems that might arise from this: weak necessity modals do not respect the semantics of necessity modals. This is because according to the traditional treatment of the modal, the set of worlds in which the strong necessity modal is assessed is predicted to include the set of worlds in which the weak modal is assessed. To remedy this, this paper argues that strong and weak necessity modals have their own set of worlds which are determined by the respective presupposition triggered by them, and universally quantify over each of their own possible worlds.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Differences between epistemic would, must and should (ought to)

3. A Critical Review of Kratzer (1991)

4. Epistemic Necessity Modals and Presuppositions

5. Presuppositional Accessibility Relations

6. The Standard and the Presuppositional Ordering Source

7. Semantic Definitions of the Epistemic Necessity Modals

8. Closing Remarks

References

키워드

epistemic ordering source presuppositional accessible worlds strong necessity modality weak necessity modality