• Francesco Costantini - Università degli Studi di Udine, Italia - email

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_359
dc.title	Subject Obviation as a Semantic Failure: a Preliminary Account
dc.contributor.author	Costantini Francesco
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/annali-di-ca-foscari-serie-occidentale/2016/1/subject-obviation-as-a-semantic-failure-a-prelimin/
dc.description.abstract	Subject obviation in subjunctive clauses has drawn attention in the field of formal linguistics since the early eighties. Despite an abundant literature on the phenomenon, obviation still remains in many respects mysterious. This article explores a different approach to the phenomenon, whereby obviation can be accounted for by resorting to the notion of self-knowledge, as generally conceived in the field of philosophy of language and philosophy of mind. Under the view proposed here, obviation is caused by a clash between the semantic characteristics of the attitude predicate and those of the embedded clause. Particularly, it is suggested that obviation obtains if and only if an embedded clause expresses self-knowledge.
dc.relation.ispartof	Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 50 | September 2016
dc.issued	2016-09-30
dc.dateAccepted	2016-08-31
dc.dateSubmitted	2016-04-12
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2499-1562
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/2499-1562/AnnOc-50-16-5
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Linguistics
dc.subject	Linguistics
dc.subject	Obviation
dc.subject	Obviation
dc.subject	Self-knowledge
dc.subject	Self-knowledge
dc.subject	Subjunctive clauses
dc.subject	Subjunctive clauses
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