Speaker: Valentine Hacquard, University of Maryland
Title: Epistemics, mood and attitudes
Date: Friday, November 05, 2010
Time: 3:30-5:00PM
Place: 32-155 (PLEASE NOTE ROOM)
Epistemic modals are notoriously difficult to embed. This talk will focus
on epistemic modals in complements of attitudes verbs. I will show that
epistemics can appear in the complements of some, but not all attitudes. A
rough generalization is that they are prohibited in complements of verbs
that select for subjunctive mood in Romance. I will present joint work
with Pranav Anand that aims at explaining this generalization: why is the
distribution of epistemics restricted, and what role, if any, does mood
plays?