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On truth persistence

A comparison between European Portuguese and Italian in relation to sempre

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This paper analyzes a non-temporal interpretation of the adverb sempre “always” in European Portuguese and Italian, in which the adverb expresses persistence of the truth of a proposition over time and displays specific contextual constraints (TP-sempre). Despite an overlap in the contexts in which TP-sempre may occur in both languages, we provide data showing that its distribution is not exactly the same in European Portuguese and Italian. In view of these data, we propose that TP-sempre is a modal operator of confirmation in both languages, but that it is more restricted in Italian in that it has a plan presupposition only in this language.

  • Affiliations: 1: Indiana University; 2: Université de Toulouse Le Mirail cCLLE-ERSS (CNRS & Université de Toulouse 2)

References

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References

  1. Âmbar, Manuela , Manuela Gonzaga & Esmeralda V. Negrão
    2004 “Tense, Quantification and Clause Structure in EP and BP”. Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2002: Selected papers from Going Romance 2002, Groningen, 28–30 November 2002ed. by Reineke Bok-Bennema , Bart Hollebrandse , Brigitte Kampers-Mahne & Petra Sleeman , 1–16. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/cilt.256.01amb
     https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.256.01amb [Google Scholar]
  2. Brito, Ana Maria
    2001 “Clause Structure, Subject Positions and Verb Movement: About the position of sempre in European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese”. Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 1999: Selected papers from Going Romance 1999, Leiden, 9–11 December 1999ed. by Yves D’hulst , Johan Rooryck & Jan Schroten , 63–85. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/cilt.221.03bri
     https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.221.03bri [Google Scholar]
  3. Dowty, David
    1979 Word Meaning and Montague Grammar. Dordrecht: Kluwer. doi: 10.1007/978‑94‑009‑9473‑7
     https://doi.org/10.1007/ 978-94-009-9473-7 [Google Scholar]
  4. Fiéis, Alexandra
    2010 “On the Position of Sempre in Medieval Portuguese and in Modern European Portuguese”. The Linguistic Review27.75–105. doi: 10.1515/tlir.2010.004
     https://doi.org/10.1515/tlir.2010.004 [Google Scholar]
  5. Gonzaga, Manuela
    1997 Aspectos da sintaxe dos advérbios em Português. M.A. dissertation, University of Lisbon.
     [Google Scholar]
  6. Hansen, Maj-Britt Mosegaard
    2004 “La polysémie de l ’ adverbe toujours ”. Travaux de Linguistique49.39–55. doi: 10.3917/tl.049.0039
     https://doi.org/10.3917/tl.049.0039 [Google Scholar]
  7. Ilari, Rodolfo
    1992 Gramática do Português Falado. Vol. II: Níveis de análise lingüística. Campinas: Editora da Unicamp.
     [Google Scholar]
  8. Jespersen, Otto
    1931 “A New Science: Interlinguistics”. Psyche11.57–67.
     [Google Scholar]
  9. Krifka, Manfred , Francis J. Pelletier , Gregory Carlson , Alice ter Meulen , Godehard Link & Gennaro Chierchia
    1995 “Genericity: An introduction”. The Generic Booked. by Gregory Carlson & Francis J. Pelletier , 1–124. Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press.
     [Google Scholar]
  10. Lewis, David
    1975 “Adverbs of Quantification”. Formal Semantics of Natural Languageed. by Edward Keenan , 3–15. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/CBO9780511897696.003
     https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511 897696.003 [Google Scholar]
  11. Lopes, Ana C.M
    1998 “Contribuição para o estudo dos valores discursivos de sempre”. Actas do XIII Encontro Nacional da APLed. by Mailce A. Mota & Rita Marquilhas , 3–14. Lisboa: Colibri.
     [Google Scholar]
  12. Prince, Ellen
    1992 “The ZPG Letter: Subjects, definiteness, and information-status”. Discourse Description: Diverse analyses of a fundraising texted. by Sandra A. Thompson & William C. Mann , 295–325. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/pbns.16.12pri
     https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.16.12pri [Google Scholar]
  13. Smith, Carlota
    2010 “The Temporal Reference of the English Futurate”. Text, Time, and Context: Selected papers of Carlota S. Smithed. by Richard P. Meier , Helen Aristar-Dry & Emilie Destruel , 147–160. Dordrecht: Springer.
     [Google Scholar]

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