Kjell Johan Sæbø
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 808937 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kjell Johan Sæbø |
| PRENOMES | Kjell Johan |
| SOBRENOME | Sæbø |
| ASSINATURA | SÆBØ K J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8312-3123 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 15 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1980 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Counterfactual mood in Czech, German, Norwegian, and Russian
The type of mood or tense marking that causes counterfactuality inferences-as figuring prominently, but far from exclusively, in counterfactual conditionals-has not yet received a comprehensive and compositional analysis. Focusing on four languages, the paper presents under-appreciated facts and a novel theory where the mood serves to activate alternatives to modal operators, particularly one: the identity operator, often giving rise to counterfa…
Polarity subjunctives in German and Russian
Subjunctives are typically used in intensional, or modal, contexts to talk about possible worlds, but they can also be licensed in negative contexts. While prior work has sought to unify these ‘polarity’ subjunctives with ‘intensional’ subjunctives, in this article I build a case that they represent, in German and Russian at least, a distinct use as negative polarity items (NPIs). This usage fills a gap in the typology of NPIs: unlike known items…
To Finish in German and Mainland Scandinavian
Among the words that describe initial or final parts of events, words describing finishing stand out in a number of ways: in a language like English, there is a transitive verb which is singularly flexible regarding the type of event retrievable from the context; in a language like German, there is no verb but there is a verbal particle; in either case, there is a requirement of telicity and there is a requirement of theme incrementality. The pre…
The explicative genitive and close apposition
How” questions and the manner–method distinction
Reports of Specific Indefinites
Utterances of sentences with an indefinite can sometimes be reported with a referential term instead, notably if the indefinite was ‘specific’ but a referential term would not have been appropriate in the original utterance situation. This motivates a reassessment of indefinites and of speech reports. Under the proposed analyses, specific indefinites are referential with respect to what will be called the speaker’s context, as distinct from the c…
Possession and pertinence
Conversational Contrast and Conventional Parallel
Conversational Contrast and Conventional Parallel: Topic Implicatures and Additive Presuppositions Get access Kjell Johan Saebo Kjell Johan Saebo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Semantics, Volume 21, Issue 2, May 2004, Pages 199–217, https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/21.2.199 Published: 01 May 2004
Natural language corpus semantics
This paper addresses the methodological issue of what data can safely be disregarded in the quest for a good analysis of a given semantic phenomenon. I argue that as there is no objective measure for this, making the temptation to adjust the terrain to the map hard to resist, it is strongly advisable to make use of text corpora in formal semantic research. I illustrate this argument by considering in some detail the recent history of research on …
In a Mediative Mood
Infinitive Perfect and Backward Causation
The present paper represents an attempt to explain the semantically deviant nature of causative constructions with present perfect effect sentences. As far as I known, such constructions have not been commented upon in the literature on causativity. I show that any counterfactual analysis of the traditional sort will bring them out as synthetic sentences, provided they are syntactically well-formed. On the other hand, if the notion os counterfact…
How” questions and the manner–method distinction
Possession and pertinence
In a Mediative Mood
Polarity subjunctives in German and Russian
Subjunctives are typically used in intensional, or modal, contexts to talk about possible worlds, but they can also be licensed in negative contexts. While prior work has sought to unify these ‘polarity’ subjunctives with ‘intensional’ subjunctives, in this article I build a case that they represent, in German and Russian at least, a distinct use as negative polarity items (NPIs). This usage fills a gap in the typology of NPIs: unlike known items…
Infinitive Perfect and Backward Causation
The present paper represents an attempt to explain the semantically deviant nature of causative constructions with present perfect effect sentences. As far as I known, such constructions have not been commented upon in the literature on causativity. I show that any counterfactual analysis of the traditional sort will bring them out as synthetic sentences, provided they are syntactically well-formed. On the other hand, if the notion os counterfact…
Conversational Contrast and Conventional Parallel
Conversational Contrast and Conventional Parallel: Topic Implicatures and Additive Presuppositions Get access Kjell Johan Saebo Kjell Johan Saebo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Semantics, Volume 21, Issue 2, May 2004, Pages 199–217, https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/21.2.199 Published: 01 May 2004
Natural language corpus semantics
This paper addresses the methodological issue of what data can safely be disregarded in the quest for a good analysis of a given semantic phenomenon. I argue that as there is no objective measure for this, making the temptation to adjust the terrain to the map hard to resist, it is strongly advisable to make use of text corpora in formal semantic research. I illustrate this argument by considering in some detail the recent history of research on …
In a Mediative Mood
Possession and pertinence
Reports of Specific Indefinites
Utterances of sentences with an indefinite can sometimes be reported with a referential term instead, notably if the indefinite was ‘specific’ but a referential term would not have been appropriate in the original utterance situation. This motivates a reassessment of indefinites and of speech reports. Under the proposed analyses, specific indefinites are referential with respect to what will be called the speaker’s context, as distinct from the c…
How” questions and the manner–method distinction
To Finish in German and Mainland Scandinavian
Among the words that describe initial or final parts of events, words describing finishing stand out in a number of ways: in a language like English, there is a transitive verb which is singularly flexible regarding the type of event retrievable from the context; in a language like German, there is no verb but there is a verbal particle; in either case, there is a requirement of telicity and there is a requirement of theme incrementality. The pre…
The explicative genitive and close apposition
Polarity subjunctives in German and Russian
Subjunctives are typically used in intensional, or modal, contexts to talk about possible worlds, but they can also be licensed in negative contexts. While prior work has sought to unify these ‘polarity’ subjunctives with ‘intensional’ subjunctives, in this article I build a case that they represent, in German and Russian at least, a distinct use as negative polarity items (NPIs). This usage fills a gap in the typology of NPIs: unlike known items…
Counterfactual mood in Czech, German, Norwegian, and Russian
The type of mood or tense marking that causes counterfactuality inferences-as figuring prominently, but far from exclusively, in counterfactual conditionals-has not yet received a comprehensive and compositional analysis. Focusing on four languages, the paper presents under-appreciated facts and a novel theory where the mood serves to activate alternatives to modal operators, particularly one: the identity operator, often giving rise to counterfa…
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