Scott AnderBois
Biographic Data
| ID | 9013646 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Scott AnderBois |
| GIVEN NAMES | Scott |
| FAMILY NAME | AnderBois |
| SIGNATURE | ANDERBOIS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Los preverbos en maya yucateco
En los estudios de la lingüística maya se suele identificar una clase excepcional de adverbios que se han llamado “adverbios dependientes”, “adverbios incorporados” o “adverbios clíticos”, entre otros nombres. Su característica más llamativa es que aparecen entre la raíz verbal y el pronombre del juego A o el marcador de aspecto o modo. El objetivo de este trabajo es presentar un argumento a favor de la idea de que, en el maya yucateco, tal clase…
Rationale and Precautioning Clauses
We describe and analyze the semantics of rationale and precautioning clauses (i.e. in order to- and lest-clauses) through a detailed case study of two operators in A’ingae (or Cofán, iso 639-3: con, an Amazonian isolate): the infinitive -ye ‘inf’ and the apprehensional -sa’ne ‘appr.’ We provide a new account of rationale semantics and the first formal account of precautioning semantics. We propose that in structures such as [$p$ [(in order) to$q$…
The Discourse Particle Wal in Yucatec Maya
The morpheme wal in Yucatec Maya is regarded informally as an epistemic modal, often translated with words like English ‘might’ or ‘maybe’. In this paper, we consider the use of wal across a broader range of environments, arguing for a complex picture of wal as a discourse particle as well as its interactions with other factors. First, we show that the semantic effect of wal differs systematically depending on its intonational realization. Second…
A'ingae (Cofán)
A'ingae (also known as Cofán or Kofán) is a language isolate spoken by approximately 1,500 people in 13 communities in Ecuador and Colombia (Figure 1). Traditionally, the A'i (speakers of A'ingae) lived in the Andean foothills, but over the past century they have migrated down the Aguarico and San Miguel rivers, founding communities at Dureno and Zábalo, where the language is most widely spoken. This migration was spurred in large part by extensi…
Illocutionary Revelations
Miratives have often been thought of as expressing predications which can be schematised as ‘p is Y for the speaker at the time of the utterance’, where Y is a member of the set (surprising, new information, a sudden revelation, ...). While much of the prior literature has discussed the value of Y, this discussion has typically been taken to be primarily a matter of analysis or its conceptual underpinnings rather than an empirical one. In this pa…
Focus, Interrogation, and Indefinites
In many languages, there are certain words, morphemes, or constructions which occur only (or at least primarily) in matrix or embedded questions and are therefore called interrogative . There are also, however, linguistic elements which are not interrogative, yet play crucial roles in question formation. Chief among these are disjunctions, focus, and wh-words, which are used as indefinites in various environments.
Semantics and pragmatics of (not-)at-issueness in Yucatec Maya attitude reports
English attitude reports like “x thinks that p” can be used in two different types of contexts: ones where the Question Under Discussion (QUD) concerns whether or not p is true and ones where the QUD concerns x’s mental state itself. Yucatec Maya (YM) has two different morphosyntactic forms differing superficially in the presence or absence of the morpheme -e’, which serves as a topic marker elsewhere in the language. This paper argues that despi…
The semantics of sluicing
Since Merchant 2001, it has been widely agreed that the licensing condition on sluicing is at least partially semantic in nature. This article argues that the semantics this condition operates on must include not only truth conditions, but also the issues introduced by existential quantification and disjunction. In the account presented here, the special role these elements play in antecedents for sluicing derives from the deep semantic connectio…
The semantics of sluicing
Since Merchant 2001, it has been widely agreed that the licensing condition on sluicing is at least partially semantic in nature. This article argues that the semantics this condition operates on must include not only truth conditions, but also the issues introduced by existential quantification and disjunction. In the account presented here, the special role these elements play in antecedents for sluicing derives from the deep semantic connectio…
A'ingae (Cofán)
A'ingae (also known as Cofán or Kofán) is a language isolate spoken by approximately 1,500 people in 13 communities in Ecuador and Colombia (Figure 1). Traditionally, the A'i (speakers of A'ingae) lived in the Andean foothills, but over the past century they have migrated down the Aguarico and San Miguel rivers, founding communities at Dureno and Zábalo, where the language is most widely spoken. This migration was spurred in large part by extensi…
The semantics of sluicing
Since Merchant 2001, it has been widely agreed that the licensing condition on sluicing is at least partially semantic in nature. This article argues that the semantics this condition operates on must include not only truth conditions, but also the issues introduced by existential quantification and disjunction. In the account presented here, the special role these elements play in antecedents for sluicing derives from the deep semantic connectio…
Semantics and pragmatics of (not-)at-issueness in Yucatec Maya attitude reports
English attitude reports like “x thinks that p” can be used in two different types of contexts: ones where the Question Under Discussion (QUD) concerns whether or not p is true and ones where the QUD concerns x’s mental state itself. Yucatec Maya (YM) has two different morphosyntactic forms differing superficially in the presence or absence of the morpheme -e’, which serves as a topic marker elsewhere in the language. This paper argues that despi…
Focus, Interrogation, and Indefinites
In many languages, there are certain words, morphemes, or constructions which occur only (or at least primarily) in matrix or embedded questions and are therefore called interrogative . There are also, however, linguistic elements which are not interrogative, yet play crucial roles in question formation. Chief among these are disjunctions, focus, and wh-words, which are used as indefinites in various environments.
Illocutionary Revelations
Miratives have often been thought of as expressing predications which can be schematised as ‘p is Y for the speaker at the time of the utterance’, where Y is a member of the set (surprising, new information, a sudden revelation, ...). While much of the prior literature has discussed the value of Y, this discussion has typically been taken to be primarily a matter of analysis or its conceptual underpinnings rather than an empirical one. In this pa…
A'ingae (Cofán)
A'ingae (also known as Cofán or Kofán) is a language isolate spoken by approximately 1,500 people in 13 communities in Ecuador and Colombia (Figure 1). Traditionally, the A'i (speakers of A'ingae) lived in the Andean foothills, but over the past century they have migrated down the Aguarico and San Miguel rivers, founding communities at Dureno and Zábalo, where the language is most widely spoken. This migration was spurred in large part by extensi…
The Discourse Particle Wal in Yucatec Maya
The morpheme wal in Yucatec Maya is regarded informally as an epistemic modal, often translated with words like English ‘might’ or ‘maybe’. In this paper, we consider the use of wal across a broader range of environments, arguing for a complex picture of wal as a discourse particle as well as its interactions with other factors. First, we show that the semantic effect of wal differs systematically depending on its intonational realization. Second…
Rationale and Precautioning Clauses
We describe and analyze the semantics of rationale and precautioning clauses (i.e. in order to- and lest-clauses) through a detailed case study of two operators in A’ingae (or Cofán, iso 639-3: con, an Amazonian isolate): the infinitive -ye ‘inf’ and the apprehensional -sa’ne ‘appr.’ We provide a new account of rationale semantics and the first formal account of precautioning semantics. We propose that in structures such as [$p$ [(in order) to$q$…
Los preverbos en maya yucateco
En los estudios de la lingüística maya se suele identificar una clase excepcional de adverbios que se han llamado “adverbios dependientes”, “adverbios incorporados” o “adverbios clíticos”, entre otros nombres. Su característica más llamativa es que aparecen entre la raíz verbal y el pronombre del juego A o el marcador de aspecto o modo. El objetivo de este trabajo es presentar un argumento a favor de la idea de que, en el maya yucateco, tal clase…
Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · History (4 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works)