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SUMMARY:Modal and temporal issues of evaluative adjectival copular clauses
  in Spanish - Maria Arche (University of Greenwich)
DTSTART:20221122T130000Z
DTEND:20221122T141500Z
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CONTACT:Onkar Singh
DESCRIPTION:In this talk I will present work carried out with Tim Stowell 
 on temporal and modal issues of copular clauses headed by dispositional ev
 aluative adjectives. As discussed in Stowell 1991\, Arche 2006\, Martin 20
 11\, Fabregas et al 2013\, Arche & Stowell 2019\, Arche et al 2021\, a.o.\
 , these adjectives present straddling properties between dispositions and 
 events. Illustrative examples are John was smart to sell his shares last y
 ear\, John is cruel to scold little children. Drawing from data from Spani
 sh\, where tense and aspect are overt in the inflection of the copula\, I 
 will discuss the following facts: the adjective expresses the evaluation o
 f a judge at the time of the attitude holder while the tense and aspect ov
 ert in the copula seem interpreted in the infinitival clause\; when actual
 ity entailments are associated to the event expressed by the infinitive\, 
 these depend on the aspectual value (perfective\, imperfective) expressed 
 in the copula\; the copula choice seems mostly restricted to ser in Spanis
 h\, which we argue can be accounted for by the predication as individual-l
 evel between the infinitive and the adjective.
LOCATION:Zoom
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