Scott Anderboi
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 218800 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Scott Anderboi |
| PRENOMES | Scott |
| SOBRENOME | Anderboi |
| ASSINATURA | ANDERBOI S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Brown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5546-9082 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The Semantics and Expression of Apprehensional Modality
Apprehensionality refers to the semantic domain of negative prospective epistemic modality and the formal expressions used to encode it. In this article, we break down the apprehensional situation into five prototypical components: (I) future reference, (II) possibility, (III) negative evaluation, (IV) avertive intent, and (V) a preferred action. In doing so, we propose a framework for comparing synchronic and diachronic aspects of the semantics …
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…
Type-shifting in headless relative clauses
Research on the (in)definiteness of bare nouns has developed various proposals regarding which type-shifters exist in human language and which principles are needed to govern their distribution (Carlson 1977; Partee 1987; Chierchia 1998; Dayal 2004; i.a.). At the same time, literature on headless relative clauses (HRCs), primarily focusing on free relatives (FRs) in Indo-European languages, has also developed type-shifting principles (Jacobson 19…
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 Forms and Functions of Switch Reference in A'ingae
This paper examines switch reference (SR) in A'ingae, an understudied isolate language from Amazonian Ecuador. We present a theoretically informed survey of SR, identifying three distinct uses of switch reference: in clause chaining, adverbial clauses, and so-called 'bridging' clause linkage. We describe the syntactic and semantic properties of each use in detail, the first such description for A'ingae, showing that the three constructions differ…
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…
At-issue Proposals and Appositive Impositions in Discourse
Potts (2005) and many subsequent works have argued that the semantic content of appositive (non-restrictive) relative clauses, e.g., the underlined material in John, who nearly killed a woman with his car, visited her in the hospital, must be in some way separate from the content of the rest of the sentence, i.e., from at-issue con-tent. At the same time, there is mounting evidence from various anaphoric processes that the two kinds of content mu…
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…
Focus and uninformativity in Yucatec Maya questions
Focus and uninformativity in Yucatec Maya questions
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…
Focus and uninformativity in Yucatec Maya questions
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…
At-issue Proposals and Appositive Impositions in Discourse
Potts (2005) and many subsequent works have argued that the semantic content of appositive (non-restrictive) relative clauses, e.g., the underlined material in John, who nearly killed a woman with his car, visited her in the hospital, must be in some way separate from the content of the rest of the sentence, i.e., from at-issue con-tent. At the same time, there is mounting evidence from various anaphoric processes that the two kinds of content mu…
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$q$…
The Forms and Functions of Switch Reference in A'ingae
This paper examines switch reference (SR) in A'ingae, an understudied isolate language from Amazonian Ecuador. We present a theoretically informed survey of SR, identifying three distinct uses of switch reference: in clause chaining, adverbial clauses, and so-called 'bridging' clause linkage. We describe the syntactic and semantic properties of each use in detail, the first such description for A'ingae, showing that the three constructions differ…
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…
Type-shifting in headless relative clauses
Research on the (in)definiteness of bare nouns has developed various proposals regarding which type-shifters exist in human language and which principles are needed to govern their distribution (Carlson 1977; Partee 1987; Chierchia 1998; Dayal 2004; i.a.). At the same time, literature on headless relative clauses (HRCs), primarily focusing on free relatives (FRs) in Indo-European languages, has also developed type-shifting principles (Jacobson 19…
The Semantics and Expression of Apprehensional Modality
Apprehensionality refers to the semantic domain of negative prospective epistemic modality and the formal expressions used to encode it. In this article, we break down the apprehensional situation into five prototypical components: (I) future reference, (II) possibility, (III) negative evaluation, (IV) avertive intent, and (V) a preferred action. In doing so, we propose a framework for comparing synchronic and diachronic aspects of the semantics …
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