Talk by Frank Sode (GU Frankfurt)
We are happy to announce a talk by Frank Sode (GU Frankfurt) in the Semantics Colloquium.
The talk will take place on campus in IG 4.301.
Title: A Neo-Heimian semantics for desire reports
Date: May 19
Time: 4 pm – 6 pm ct
Abstract:
In this talk I defend a Heimian semantics for desire reports. The basic idea in Heim (1992) is that
conditionals play an essential role in the truth conditions of desire reports. I argue that if we take the idea of "hidden conditionals" quite literal and assume that conditionals not only play a role in the truth conditions but at the syntax-semantics interface in the object language (= Neo-Heimian), we have a key to a unified solution to two old and two new puzzles relating to conditional morphology in desire reports. First, it helps to explain the puzzling X-marking patterns we find in desire reports (cf. von Fintel & Iatridou (2017,2020)). Second, it gives us a plausible semantics for complement fulfilling conditionals (Williams (1974), Pesetsky (1991)). Third, it makes suprising...