Peter Klecha
Biographic Data
| ID | 8987747 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Klecha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Klecha |
| SIGNATURE | KLECHA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
What the past says about the present and future (and what that says about the perfect) in English
This paper provides an analysis of the Past Tense in English, with the special aim of explaining a curious opposition between the Simple Past and Present Perfect. This contrast is a puzzle especially because the Present Perfect and Simple Past would otherwise be thought to have very similar meanings. On the one hand, the Past Tense has been described as giving rise to cessation inferences, including certain inferences called lifetime effects, tha…
Formal pragmatic account of Double Access
This paper argues that Double Access sentences in English (Smith, 1978) are akind of loose talk. When the meaning of a Double Access sentence is computed literally, theresult is infelicity. Double Access sentences can be used meaningfully only when rescued bypragmatics which intervenes to interpret the embedded clause loosely. A formal model forloose interpretation, building on Klecha (2018), is provided.Keywords: tense, embedding, Double Access,…
Anankastic conditionals are just conditionals
This paper presents a relative theory of tense which accounts for tense behaviors in English in both matrix and embedded contexts. Crucial to this proposal is novel data which shows that the temporal orientation of finite embedded clauses is constrained by the attitude verbs which embed them. While such constraints have been observed in modal auxiliaries and non-finite-embedding attitude verbs, finite-embedding-attitudes present an important new …
Diagnosing Modality in Predictive Expressions
This short paper argues that predictive expressions (will, gonna) are modals. In section 1, I provide three empirical arguments for a treatment of predictive expressions as modals: (i) they behave like modals in that they can occur in overt and covert conditionals in a way that non-modal operators cannot; (ii) they have morphological variants which show displacement behaviors, i.e., nonveridicality; (iii) like modals, they obviate the personal ex…
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Diagnosing Modality in Predictive Expressions
This short paper argues that predictive expressions (will, gonna) are modals. In section 1, I provide three empirical arguments for a treatment of predictive expressions as modals: (i) they behave like modals in that they can occur in overt and covert conditionals in a way that non-modal operators cannot; (ii) they have morphological variants which show displacement behaviors, i.e., nonveridicality; (iii) like modals, they obviate the personal ex…
Anankastic conditionals are just conditionals
This paper presents a relative theory of tense which accounts for tense behaviors in English in both matrix and embedded contexts. Crucial to this proposal is novel data which shows that the temporal orientation of finite embedded clauses is constrained by the attitude verbs which embed them. While such constraints have been observed in modal auxiliaries and non-finite-embedding attitude verbs, finite-embedding-attitudes present an important new …
Formal pragmatic account of Double Access
This paper argues that Double Access sentences in English (Smith, 1978) are akind of loose talk. When the meaning of a Double Access sentence is computed literally, theresult is infelicity. Double Access sentences can be used meaningfully only when rescued bypragmatics which intervenes to interpret the embedded clause loosely. A formal model forloose interpretation, building on Klecha (2018), is provided.Keywords: tense, embedding, Double Access,…
What the past says about the present and future (and what that says about the perfect) in English
This paper provides an analysis of the Past Tense in English, with the special aim of explaining a curious opposition between the Simple Past and Present Perfect. This contrast is a puzzle especially because the Present Perfect and Simple Past would otherwise be thought to have very similar meanings. On the one hand, the Past Tense has been described as giving rise to cessation inferences, including certain inferences called lifetime effects, tha…
Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Embedding (2 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (2 works) · Modal (2 works) · Modal verb (2 works) · Natural language processing (2 works)