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dc.identifier	ECF_article_6299
dc.title	It’s All Under Control!. On Perfective Present Forms in BCS Main Clauses
dc.contributor.author	Biasio Marco
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/balcania-et-slavia/2021/1/its-all-under-control/
dc.description.abstract	This study aims to provide a unified analysis of the syntax-pragmatics interface of the (allegedly) anomalous licensing of the perfective present (Pres^PF) in BCS present-tensed main clauses. Although Pres^PF forms cannot usually refer to eventualities that are anchored to the time of utterance UT, there seem to be three apparent exceptions to this structural constraint. They are as follows: 1) abusive metonymic performatives; 2) live demonstrations; and 3) nonveridical contexts introduced by the epistemic operator možda ‘maybe’. It is claimed that for Pres^PF forms to be licensed in BCS main clauses, control needs to be specified as a variable at the level of the so-called Seat of Knowledge in the SpeechActP layer.
dc.relation.ispartof	Balcania et Slavia
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 1 \| Issue 1 \| June 2021
dc.issued	2021-12-20
dc.dateAccepted	2021-10-15
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-07-20
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2785-3187
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/BES/0/2021/01/002
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Control
dc.subject	Control
dc.subject	Perfective present
dc.subject	Perfective present
dc.subject	Speech act phrase
dc.subject	Speech act phrase
dc.subject	Syntax-pragmatics interface
dc.subject	Syntax-pragmatics interface
dc.subject	Verbal aspect
dc.subject	Verbal aspect
dc.subject	Štokavian
dc.subject	Štokavian

Research Article
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On Perfective Present Forms in BCS Main Clauses

Marco Biasio Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italia

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abstract

This study aims to provide a unified analysis of the syntax-pragmatics interface of the (allegedly) anomalous licensing of the perfective present (Pres^PF) in BCS present-tensed main clauses. Although Pres^PF forms cannot usually refer to eventualities that are anchored to the time of utterance UT, there seem to be three apparent exceptions to this structural constraint. They are as follows: 1) abusive metonymic performatives; 2) live demonstrations; and 3) nonveridical contexts introduced by the epistemic operator možda ‘maybe’. It is claimed that for Pres^PF forms to be licensed in BCS main clauses, control needs to be specified as a variable at the level of the so-called Seat of Knowledge in the SpeechActP layer.

Published

Dec. 20, 2021

Accepted

Oct. 15, 2021

Submitted

July 20, 2021

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Keywords: Syntax-pragmatics interface • Control • Speech act phrase • Verbal aspect • Štokavian • Perfective present

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