Overview

Our sense of agency and ability to distinguish between intentional and accidental actions are fundamental for social interaction. They allow us to plan and perform joint actions and assign responsibility for our own actions and those of others. Research on the nature of agency and intentions has been very fruitful over the last few decades in philosophy, linguistics, and psychology. However, trully new discoveries could be made only when we engage in interdisciplinary discussions. This volume is the result of such discussions.

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Author:   Julie Goncharov ,  Hedde Zeijlstra
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   6
Weight:   0.223kg
ISBN:  

9789004679788

ISBN 10:   9004679782
Pages:   124
Publication Date:   06 June 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Notes on Contributors Agency in the English Way-Construction’s Constraints  Caterina Cacioli  Abstract  Keywords  1 Introduction  2 The Way-Construction  3 Attributing Agency  4 Corpus Research and Analysis  5 Conclusions On Some Epistemic Access Effects  Francesco Costantini  Abstract  Keywords  1 Introduction  2 Subjunctive Obviation  3 Obviation and de se Attitude Reports  4 Epistemic Access as Source of Obviation  5 Other Expected Outcomes  6 Alternative Analyses  7 Concluding Remarks Two Semantic Paths to Unintentional Causation  Ömer Demirok  Abstract  Keywords  1 Introduction  2 Background on Un-agentive Constructions  3 Syntactic Contrasts  4 Interpretational Contrasts  5 Summary of the Claims and Remaining Questions Letting Structure Speak with Authority: Constraining Agents’ Choices with French laisser  Marta Donazzan, Clémentine Raffy, Bridget Copley and Klaus von Heusinger  Abstract  Keywords  1 Introduction  2 Theoretical Background  3 Characterising Authority as a Constraint on Choice  4 When Syntax Matters: Structural Constraints on Authority Relations  5 Conclusions  Acknowledgements Index

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Julie Goncharov is a post-doctoral researcher at the Seminar for English Philology and the University Center for Text Structures at the Georg-August-University in Göttingen. Her main areas of interest are semantics/pragmatics of natural languages and philosophy of language. Her current projects revolve around questions concerning agency, intentions, free will and their representations in language. Hedde Zeijlstra is Professor at the Seminar for English Philology at the Georg-August-University in Göttingen. His main interest is the relation between sentence meaning and form: how does the meaning of a sentence follow from its parts, and why are there so many different ways of expressing the same meaning across languages?

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