TY - JOUR
T1 - Figuring out what we ought to do
T2 - the challenge of delineating priorities
AU - Rubinstein, Aynat
N1 - Proceedings of the 36th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - This paper is concerned with the fine-grained representation of priorities in goal-oriented modal discourse. The question of how priorities are represented is evaluated in the context of the domain restriction approach to weak necessity (von Fintel and Iatridou 2008), which assumes a contextual split between primary and secondary priorities. It is argued that this approach is not complete without an elucidation of how the distinction between primary and secondary priorities is made, and that existing proposals do not provide an adequate characterization of this fine-grained distinction.
AB - This paper is concerned with the fine-grained representation of priorities in goal-oriented modal discourse. The question of how priorities are represented is evaluated in the context of the domain restriction approach to weak necessity (von Fintel and Iatridou 2008), which assumes a contextual split between primary and secondary priorities. It is argued that this approach is not complete without an elucidation of how the distinction between primary and secondary priorities is made, and that existing proposals do not provide an adequate characterization of this fine-grained distinction.
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VL - 19
SP - 169
EP - 178
JO - University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics
JF - University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics
IS - 1
M1 - 20
ER -