Patrick Duffley
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 980440 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Patrick Duffley |
| NOMBRES | Patrick |
| APELLIDO | Duffley |
| FIRMA | DUFFLEY P |
| AFILIACIONES | Université Laval |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5566-9076 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1981 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Can syntax swallow semantics? Or might it not be the other way around
In the Generative model of human language, the semantic component has the role of interpreting the syntax. This amounts to semantics being swallowed up by syntax and explains Chomsky’s reiterated statements that at bottom natural language has only syntax and pragmatics: “natural language has no semantics ... it has syntax (symbol manipulation) and pragmatics (modes of use of language)” (Chomsky, Noam. 2013. Notes on denotation and denoting. In Iv…
The scope of the problems with the problem of scope
This study argues that many of the formalizations used in analyses employing the notion of logical scope fail to conform to natural language in important ways and lead to false predictions. This is due to the fact that they pursue the logic-driven goal of making the structure of logical arguments more transparent and mechanically calculable rather than the language-driven goal of accounting for how the linguistic signs used in an utterance and th…
It’s been a while since I’ve been to church
Previous research on the Present Perfect suggests that the latter is acceptable in since-clauses only if the situation expressed by the subordinate clause extends in time up until the present, as in Tony has been happy since he has been taking Prozac, i.e. if the Present Perfect in the since-clause is a Universal Perfect whose predication is true at all subintervals in the time-interval delimited by since and not an Existential Perfect whose pred…
To ‐Infinitive and Gerund‐Participle Clauses with the Verbs Dread and Fear
This paper investigates the variation between to ‐infinitive and gerund‐participle complements with the verbs dread and fear . Specifically, it aims to explain the reasons underlying complement selection with these two verbs as well as a number of semantic effects which arise with these complement clause constructions. The approach taken here argues that an explanation of these constructions must be predicated upon an analysis of the semantic con…
Logical Form – Not logical enough for logic, not linguistic enough for linguistics
What’s on Your Mind Is Not on Your Brain – Hopefully
The mind-body question is frequently framed in terms of “how the brain creates the mind” (Damasio 1999). The goal of this paper will be to contribute to the debate by a linguistic study of the words mind and brain, using data drawn from the British National Corpus, the Oxford English Dictionary, the Corpus of Contemporary American and Webster’s Dictionary. Evidence shows that the folk-concepts of ‘mind’ and ‘brain’ imply the causal priority of th…
Must/need, may/can and the scope of the modal auxiliary
This article argues that the logical paraphrases used to describe the meanings of must, need, may , and can obscure the natural-language semantic interaction between these verbs and negation. The purported non-negatability of must is argued to be an illusion created by the indicative-mood paraphrase ‘is necessary’, which treats the necessity as a reality rather than a non-reality. It is proposed that negation coalesces with the modality that must…
A relevance-theoretical perspective on the question of why Jesus never wrote a book
Many reasons have been given for why Jesus never wrote anything. Some have argued that this was because he, or his audience, was illiterate; some that it was because Jewish rabbis only gave oral teaching; others that it was to avoid the idolatrizing of a divinely authored book. Moreover, given the deep reverence among the Jews for the written word found in the Torah, and the fact that Jesus claimed for himself the same authority as that upon whic…
The use of any with factive predicates
While Negative Polarity Items are generally ungrammatical in veridical environments (* I said anything ), they are known to be found in factive environments that involve veridicality ( I regret you said anything ). There is however disagreement in the literature about the types of factive environments in which any is found. This paper proposes the first systematic large-scale survey of the use of any with factive predicates. Based on corpora tota…
Semantically-based functions of noun-class markers in Tagbana
This paper addresses the use of noun-class markers in Tagbana from the perspective of a cognitively-inspired approach based on Langacker’s (2000. Grammar and conceptualization . Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter) semiological principle. Drawing on this basic tenet of Cognitive Grammar according to which the symbolic function of language consists in making speakers’ conceptualizations auditorily or visually perceptible, it demonstrates that in …
The role of DO-auxiliary in subject-auxiliary inversion
This paper builds on Langacker’s (in press. How to build an English clause. Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics 2(2)) analysis of subject-auxiliary inversion (SAI) as involving “existential negotiation”. Langacker’s account is completed by relating it to full verb inversion (FVI). In FVI, non-core elements are fronted, resulting in inversion without an auxiliary, as in Into the room walked Mary ; however, non-core element…
A fresh look at the compatibility between any and veridical contexts
The emergence of implicit meaning
The purpose of this paper is to show how corpus data can contribute to assessing explicit hypotheses about natural language just as experimental protocols can. The particular hypotheses tested concern the source of generalised conversational implicatures with quantifier some . Is the “some and not all” meaning of some a default interpretation of this item or a requirement of certain contexts? The defaultist approach (Levinson 2000, Chierchia 2004…
Tense and control interpretations in gerund-participle and to-infinitive complement constructions with verbs of risk
This study investigates temporal and control interpretations with verbs of risk followed by non-finite complements in English. It addresses two questions: Why does the gerund-participle show variation in the temporal relation between the event it denotes and that of the main verb whereas the to-infinitive manifests a constant temporal relation? Why does the gerund-participle construction allow variation in control while the to-infinitive shows co…
Collocation, interpretation and explanation
Complementation with Verbs of Choice in English
This study addresses both the practical question of what forms of complementation are found with verbs expressing the notion of choice in English and the theoretical question of explaining the control and temporal effects found with these verbs. The explanation proposed is based on an approach in which syntax is taken to be driven by semantics. Semantics is defined in terms of the meaning-content associated with the linguistic forms occurring in …
Juhani Rudanko, Complements and constructions
Verbs of Liking with the Infinitive and the Gerund
(2004). Verbs of Liking with the Infinitive and the Gerund. English Studies: Vol. 85, No. 4, pp. 358-380
Les conditions de production de l'effet de sens "imperfectif" avec la forme en -ing de l'anglais
Duffley Patrick. Les conditions de production de l'effet de sens "imperfectif" avec la forme en -ing de l'anglais. In: Langages, 37e année, n°149, 2003. Participe présent et gérondif, sous la direction de Teddy Arnavielle. pp. 86-99
The Gerund and the Infinitive with the Verbs intend, mean, propose and their Close Synonyms
This article investigates gerundive and infinitival constructions with the verbs intend, mean, propose and their close synonyms with respect to the abstract categories of “tense” and “control”. Concerning “tense”, the gerundive construction with these verbs constitutes counterevidence to the common claim that the - ing form denotes simultaneity or temporal overlap: the explanation proposed shows that the latter does not correspond to any of the u…
Is communicative function the fundamental determinant of language structure
Columbia School linguistics has been characterized as an instance of “radical functionalism” wherein the structure of language as an inventory of signs is motivated by the communicative function of language (Reid 1991:31). The present paper wishes to question whether a radically functionalist approach allows linguistics to account for the totality of its object. The fact that the linguistic meanings which functionalists deal with as allowing the …
Wh- words and the infinitive in English
The infinitive and the ‐ing as complements of verbs of effort
(1994). The infinitive and the ‐ing as complements of verbs of effort. English Studies: Vol. 75, No. 6, pp. 566-575
Need and dare
Verb and noun number in English. A functional explanation
The English Infinitive
To us zero - a meaningful distinction? the infinitive incident to full verbs the infinitive incident to auxiliary verbs the infinitive not incident to another verb the infinitive in the English verb system
Collocation, interpretation and explanation
Need and dare
A fresh look at the compatibility between any and veridical contexts
The emergence of implicit meaning
The purpose of this paper is to show how corpus data can contribute to assessing explicit hypotheses about natural language just as experimental protocols can. The particular hypotheses tested concern the source of generalised conversational implicatures with quantifier some . Is the “some and not all” meaning of some a default interpretation of this item or a requirement of certain contexts? The defaultist approach (Levinson 2000, Chierchia 2004…
MAY, CAN and the expression of permission
Any system is necessarily both one , by virtue of its governing principle, and several internally, by virtue of the positions it contains. No system can contain just one element. By nature and by definition a system is binary: it must contain at least two elements to be a system at all. (Translated from Guillaume 1973:175) In any linguistic system—and this is the basic condition for systematizing—there is ... a before and an after within which an…
The Use of the Verb Dare in Blends between the Modal and Main Verb Constructions
It is a well-known fact that the verb dare can be used with either modal or main verb characteristics both in its inflection and in its syntax. When used as a modal, it drops the - s ending in the third person singular present indicative ( She dare not mention it in his presence ), has no imperative, infinitive or participial forms, takes direct negation by not , AUX-inverts in questions ( Dare I ask you another question? ) and is followed by the…
Verb and noun number in English. A functional explanation
The English Infinitive
To us zero - a meaningful distinction? the infinitive incident to full verbs the infinitive incident to auxiliary verbs the infinitive not incident to another verb the infinitive in the English verb system
The infinitive and the ‐ing as complements of verbs of effort
(1994). The infinitive and the ‐ing as complements of verbs of effort. English Studies: Vol. 75, No. 6, pp. 566-575
Need and dare
Is communicative function the fundamental determinant of language structure
Columbia School linguistics has been characterized as an instance of “radical functionalism” wherein the structure of language as an inventory of signs is motivated by the communicative function of language (Reid 1991:31). The present paper wishes to question whether a radically functionalist approach allows linguistics to account for the totality of its object. The fact that the linguistic meanings which functionalists deal with as allowing the …
Wh- words and the infinitive in English
The Gerund and the Infinitive with the Verbs intend, mean, propose and their Close Synonyms
This article investigates gerundive and infinitival constructions with the verbs intend, mean, propose and their close synonyms with respect to the abstract categories of “tense” and “control”. Concerning “tense”, the gerundive construction with these verbs constitutes counterevidence to the common claim that the - ing form denotes simultaneity or temporal overlap: the explanation proposed shows that the latter does not correspond to any of the u…
Les conditions de production de l'effet de sens "imperfectif" avec la forme en -ing de l'anglais
Duffley Patrick. Les conditions de production de l'effet de sens "imperfectif" avec la forme en -ing de l'anglais. In: Langages, 37e année, n°149, 2003. Participe présent et gérondif, sous la direction de Teddy Arnavielle. pp. 86-99
Juhani Rudanko, Complements and constructions
Verbs of Liking with the Infinitive and the Gerund
(2004). Verbs of Liking with the Infinitive and the Gerund. English Studies: Vol. 85, No. 4, pp. 358-380
Complementation with Verbs of Choice in English
This study addresses both the practical question of what forms of complementation are found with verbs expressing the notion of choice in English and the theoretical question of explaining the control and temporal effects found with these verbs. The explanation proposed is based on an approach in which syntax is taken to be driven by semantics. Semantics is defined in terms of the meaning-content associated with the linguistic forms occurring in …
Tense and control interpretations in gerund-participle and to-infinitive complement constructions with verbs of risk
This study investigates temporal and control interpretations with verbs of risk followed by non-finite complements in English. It addresses two questions: Why does the gerund-participle show variation in the temporal relation between the event it denotes and that of the main verb whereas the to-infinitive manifests a constant temporal relation? Why does the gerund-participle construction allow variation in control while the to-infinitive shows co…
Collocation, interpretation and explanation
The emergence of implicit meaning
The purpose of this paper is to show how corpus data can contribute to assessing explicit hypotheses about natural language just as experimental protocols can. The particular hypotheses tested concern the source of generalised conversational implicatures with quantifier some . Is the “some and not all” meaning of some a default interpretation of this item or a requirement of certain contexts? The defaultist approach (Levinson 2000, Chierchia 2004…
A fresh look at the compatibility between any and veridical contexts
The role of DO-auxiliary in subject-auxiliary inversion
This paper builds on Langacker’s (in press. How to build an English clause. Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics 2(2)) analysis of subject-auxiliary inversion (SAI) as involving “existential negotiation”. Langacker’s account is completed by relating it to full verb inversion (FVI). In FVI, non-core elements are fronted, resulting in inversion without an auxiliary, as in Into the room walked Mary ; however, non-core element…
Semantically-based functions of noun-class markers in Tagbana
This paper addresses the use of noun-class markers in Tagbana from the perspective of a cognitively-inspired approach based on Langacker’s (2000. Grammar and conceptualization . Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter) semiological principle. Drawing on this basic tenet of Cognitive Grammar according to which the symbolic function of language consists in making speakers’ conceptualizations auditorily or visually perceptible, it demonstrates that in …
Must/need, may/can and the scope of the modal auxiliary
This article argues that the logical paraphrases used to describe the meanings of must, need, may , and can obscure the natural-language semantic interaction between these verbs and negation. The purported non-negatability of must is argued to be an illusion created by the indicative-mood paraphrase ‘is necessary’, which treats the necessity as a reality rather than a non-reality. It is proposed that negation coalesces with the modality that must…
A relevance-theoretical perspective on the question of why Jesus never wrote a book
Many reasons have been given for why Jesus never wrote anything. Some have argued that this was because he, or his audience, was illiterate; some that it was because Jewish rabbis only gave oral teaching; others that it was to avoid the idolatrizing of a divinely authored book. Moreover, given the deep reverence among the Jews for the written word found in the Torah, and the fact that Jesus claimed for himself the same authority as that upon whic…
The use of any with factive predicates
While Negative Polarity Items are generally ungrammatical in veridical environments (* I said anything ), they are known to be found in factive environments that involve veridicality ( I regret you said anything ). There is however disagreement in the literature about the types of factive environments in which any is found. This paper proposes the first systematic large-scale survey of the use of any with factive predicates. Based on corpora tota…
What’s on Your Mind Is Not on Your Brain – Hopefully
The mind-body question is frequently framed in terms of “how the brain creates the mind” (Damasio 1999). The goal of this paper will be to contribute to the debate by a linguistic study of the words mind and brain, using data drawn from the British National Corpus, the Oxford English Dictionary, the Corpus of Contemporary American and Webster’s Dictionary. Evidence shows that the folk-concepts of ‘mind’ and ‘brain’ imply the causal priority of th…
To ‐Infinitive and Gerund‐Participle Clauses with the Verbs Dread and Fear
This paper investigates the variation between to ‐infinitive and gerund‐participle complements with the verbs dread and fear . Specifically, it aims to explain the reasons underlying complement selection with these two verbs as well as a number of semantic effects which arise with these complement clause constructions. The approach taken here argues that an explanation of these constructions must be predicated upon an analysis of the semantic con…
Logical Form – Not logical enough for logic, not linguistic enough for linguistics
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