The Factuality Status of Chinese Necessity Modals

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_3809
dc.contributor.author	Sparvoli Carlotta
dc.title	The Factuality Status of Chinese Necessity Modals. Exploring the Distribution Via Corpus-Based Approach
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	This paper is intended to test the deontic vs anankastic hypothesis outlined by Sparvoli 2012. The stipulation is that, in past contexts, deontic modals trigger a counterfactual inference, while anankastic modals (here called ‘goal-oriented modals’) either trigger an actuality entailment effects (‘only possibility’ modals) or a generic non-factual reading (‘mere necessity’ modals). The result of this corpus-based study conducted in a Chinese-English parallel corpus confirm the crucial role played by the deontic vs goal-oriented contrast in the marking of factuality in Chinese and shows that the factuality value decreases across a cline from goal-oriented to deontic modals.
dc.relation.ispartof	Sinica venetiana
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2020-12-21
dc.dateAccepted	2020-10-14
dc.dateSubmitted	2020-03-04
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-407-3/the-factuality-status-of-chinese-necessity-modals/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-406-6/005
dc.identifier.issn	2610-9654
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9042
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-407-3
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-406-6
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Actuality entailment
dc.subject	Actuality entailment
dc.subject	Counterfactuality
dc.subject	Counterfactuality
dc.subject	Deontic modality
dc.subject	Deontic modality
dc.subject	Goal-oriented modality
dc.subject	Goal-oriented modality

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The Factuality Status of Chinese Necessity Modals

Exploring the Distribution Via Corpus-Based Approach

Carlotta Sparvoli Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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This paper is intended to test the deontic vs anankastic hypothesis outlined by Sparvoli 2012. The stipulation is that, in past contexts, deontic modals trigger a counterfactual inference, while anankastic modals (here called ‘goal-oriented modals’) either trigger an actuality entailment effects (‘only possibility’ modals) or a generic non-factual reading (‘mere necessity’ modals). The result of this corpus-based study conducted in a Chinese-English parallel corpus confirm the crucial role played by the deontic vs goal-oriented contrast in the marking of factuality in Chinese and shows that the factuality value decreases across a cline from goal-oriented to deontic modals.

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Oct. 14, 2020

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March 4, 2020

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978-88-6969-407-3

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978-88-6969-406-6

Keywords: Actuality entailment • Deontic modality • Counterfactuality • Goal-oriented modality

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