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言語学コロキアム開催についてのお知らせ

2023.02.14

エジンバラ大学の上垣渉先生をお招きして、以下の要領で、言語学コロキアムを開催します。ぜひご参加ください。

• 日時：
  2023年2月21日（火）15:00~16:30 頃まで
• 会場：
  神戸大学人文学研究科C棟５階大会議室
  http://www.lit.kobe-u.ac.jp/information/access.html
• 発表者:
  Wataru Uegaki (University of Edinburgh)
• タイトル/アブストラクト:
  Factivity alternation and the ‘missing’ non-veridical reading of interrogative complements

In a number of languages, some clause-embedding predicates exhibit ‘factivity alternation’, i.e., they allow both factive and non-factive interpretations with respect to declarative complements, depending on the choice of the complementation strategy (Lee & Hong 2016, Jeong 2020 on Korean; Özyıldız 2017 on Turkish; Hanink & Bochnak 2017 on Washo; Bondarenko 2020 on Barguzin Buryat). It is furthermore observed in Turkish and Buryat that the same predicates that license factivity alternation nevertheless only allow veridical interpretations of interrogative complements (Bondarenko 2019; Özyıldız 2019). In this talk, I will provide a concrete analysis of a sub-case of the same observation in Japanese. I will argue that non-nominalised declarative complements in Japanese allow a parse as an adjunct while interrogative complements are true arguments of embedding predicates. Together with the assumption that predicates place a presupposition only to its arguments (cf. Bondarenko 2020), we can derive the obligatory veridical interpretation with respect to interrogative complements. I will furthermore discuss implications of the proposal for the cross-linguistic analysis of different types of embedding strategies, as well as for the analysis of the recurring observations in the literature that question-embedding correlates with veridicality.