Open AccessAdjectival 'as'-phrases as intensional secondary predicates
Author(s) -
Sarah Zobel
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
proceedings from semantics and linguistic theory
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2163-5951
pISSN - 2163-5943
DOI - 10.3765/salt.v26i0.3876
Subject(s) - transitive relation , computer science , object (grammar) , linguistics , modal verb , natural language processing , contrast (vision) , modality (human–computer interaction) , property (philosophy) , verb phrase , artificial intelligence , verb , mathematics , noun phrase , philosophy , combinatorics , noun , epistemology
This paper focuses on adjectival as-phrases that co-occur with transitive verbs, and contribute additional information on the verb’s internal arguments. I claim that these as-phrases behave like secondary predicates, specifically object-oriented depictives, but—in contrast to object-oriented depictives—contribute intensional content, a modal property. In the course of the paper, I delimit the type of as-phrases that are covered in this paper, and propose a formal analysis for these cases that builds on results by Rothstein (2003) on object-oriented depictives, and the notion of information-based modality in Kratzer 2012. I show how the analysis captures the entailment patterns found with these as-phrases, and how it can be extended to related nominal as-phrases.