Thomas Grano
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 821589 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Thomas Grano |
| PRENOMES | Thomas |
| SOBRENOME | Grano |
| ASSINATURA | GRANO T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Indiana University Bloomington |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4657-9030 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Direction of fit and the grammar of attitude reports
Synchronizing meaning with sound and beyond
Intention reports and eventuality abstraction in a theory of mood choice
Irrealis Expressions and Modality
Von Prince, Krajinović, and Krifka (2022) argue that irrealis is a crosslinguistically legitimate semantic category, and they define it in terms of a domain encompassing both future possibility and counterfactuality. In this response, we argue that this definition is too narrow, because it excludes past and present possibility and necessity. We suggest instead that the correct characterization is that irrealis expressions correlate with quantific…
Variable Force Modality in English Infinitival Relatives
English infinitival relative clauses exhibit variable force deontic modality, with the restriction that whereas a weak necessity (should-like) reading is always available, a possibility (can/could-like) reading is available only under weak quantifiers. I propose: weak necessity modals have a degree semantics, whereby combination with a silent positive morpheme yields weak necessity; existential closure of the degree variable yields possibility; a…
(Counter)factual Want Ascriptions and Conditional Belief
What are the truth conditions of want ascriptions? According to an influential approach, they are intimately connected to the agent’s beliefs: ⌜S wants p⌝ is true iff, within S’s belief set, S prefers the p worlds to the not-p worlds. This approach faces a well-known problem, however: it makes the wrong predictions for what we call (counter)factual want ascriptions, wherein the agent either believes p or believes not-p—for example, ‘I want it to …
Enough clauses, (non)finiteness, and modality
Universal markedness in gradable adjectives revisited
How to Neutralize a Finite Clause Boundary
A bound pronoun in the subject position of a finite embedded clause renders the clause boundary relatively transparent to relations ordinarily confined to monoclausal, control, and raising configurations. For example, too/ enough-movement structures involving a finite clause boundary are degraded in sentences like * This book is too long [for John to claim [that Bill read ___ in a day]] but improved when the finite clause has a bound pronominal s…
The Logic of Intention Reports
Unlike belief and desire reports, intention reports (e.g. John intends to leave soon) are not well studied in formal semantics. This article aims to begin to fill this gap, focusing on empirical similarities and differences that intention reports bear in relation to other attitude reports and to other expressions that involve intentional action. These empirical properties are shown to follow from the view that an intention report aintendsp denote…
Finiteness contrasts without Tense? A view from Mandarin Chinese
What Partial Control Might Not Tell Us about Agreement
Landau (2016b) draws on data from person mismatches in partial control to argue that agreement is (at least sometimes) a PF (Phonological Form) phenomenon. The argument depends in part on the premise that there is a reading of sentences such as They wanted to prepare themselves and then meet for debate that corresponds to a structure in which the VP meet for debate has a controlled PRO subject that is semantically first‐person but morphologically…
Mandarin transitive comparatives and the grammar of measurement
Mandarin hen and Universal Markedness in gradable adjectives
Scale structure, coercion, and the interpretation of measure phrases in Japanese
Investigating an Asymmetry in the Semantics of Japanese Measure Phrases
Mandarin hen and Universal Markedness in gradable adjectives
How to Neutralize a Finite Clause Boundary
A bound pronoun in the subject position of a finite embedded clause renders the clause boundary relatively transparent to relations ordinarily confined to monoclausal, control, and raising configurations. For example, too/ enough-movement structures involving a finite clause boundary are degraded in sentences like * This book is too long [for John to claim [that Bill read ___ in a day]] but improved when the finite clause has a bound pronominal s…
Scale structure, coercion, and the interpretation of measure phrases in Japanese
Enough clauses, (non)finiteness, and modality
Universal markedness in gradable adjectives revisited
Investigating an Asymmetry in the Semantics of Japanese Measure Phrases
Scale structure, coercion, and the interpretation of measure phrases in Japanese
Mandarin transitive comparatives and the grammar of measurement
Mandarin hen and Universal Markedness in gradable adjectives
The Logic of Intention Reports
Unlike belief and desire reports, intention reports (e.g. John intends to leave soon) are not well studied in formal semantics. This article aims to begin to fill this gap, focusing on empirical similarities and differences that intention reports bear in relation to other attitude reports and to other expressions that involve intentional action. These empirical properties are shown to follow from the view that an intention report aintendsp denote…
Finiteness contrasts without Tense? A view from Mandarin Chinese
What Partial Control Might Not Tell Us about Agreement
Landau (2016b) draws on data from person mismatches in partial control to argue that agreement is (at least sometimes) a PF (Phonological Form) phenomenon. The argument depends in part on the premise that there is a reading of sentences such as They wanted to prepare themselves and then meet for debate that corresponds to a structure in which the VP meet for debate has a controlled PRO subject that is semantically first‐person but morphologically…
Universal markedness in gradable adjectives revisited
How to Neutralize a Finite Clause Boundary
A bound pronoun in the subject position of a finite embedded clause renders the clause boundary relatively transparent to relations ordinarily confined to monoclausal, control, and raising configurations. For example, too/ enough-movement structures involving a finite clause boundary are degraded in sentences like * This book is too long [for John to claim [that Bill read ___ in a day]] but improved when the finite clause has a bound pronominal s…
(Counter)factual Want Ascriptions and Conditional Belief
What are the truth conditions of want ascriptions? According to an influential approach, they are intimately connected to the agent’s beliefs: ⌜S wants p⌝ is true iff, within S’s belief set, S prefers the p worlds to the not-p worlds. This approach faces a well-known problem, however: it makes the wrong predictions for what we call (counter)factual want ascriptions, wherein the agent either believes p or believes not-p—for example, ‘I want it to …
Enough clauses, (non)finiteness, and modality
Intention reports and eventuality abstraction in a theory of mood choice
Irrealis Expressions and Modality
Von Prince, Krajinović, and Krifka (2022) argue that irrealis is a crosslinguistically legitimate semantic category, and they define it in terms of a domain encompassing both future possibility and counterfactuality. In this response, we argue that this definition is too narrow, because it excludes past and present possibility and necessity. We suggest instead that the correct characterization is that irrealis expressions correlate with quantific…
Variable Force Modality in English Infinitival Relatives
English infinitival relative clauses exhibit variable force deontic modality, with the restriction that whereas a weak necessity (should-like) reading is always available, a possibility (can/could-like) reading is available only under weak quantifiers. I propose: weak necessity modals have a degree semantics, whereby combination with a silent positive morpheme yields weak necessity; existential closure of the degree variable yields possibility; a…
Synchronizing meaning with sound and beyond
Direction of fit and the grammar of attitude reports
Philosophy (15 obras) · Computer Science (13 obras) · Linguistics (13 obras) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (13 obras) · Mathematics (10 obras) · Psychology (9 obras) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (6 obras) · Epistemology (5 obras) · Morpheme (5 obras) · Artificial Intelligence (4 obras)