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TY  - BOOK
ID  - 470679
TI  - On the grammar of optative constructions
PY  - 2012
SN  - 9789027255761 9789027273451 9027255768 9027273456 1283539462 9786613851918 9781283539463 6613851914
PB  - Amsterdam  John Benjamins Publishing Company
DB  - UniCat
KW  - English language
KW  - Comparative linguistics
KW  - Grammar
KW  - German language
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general
KW  - Modes (Linguistique)
KW  - Subordonnées (Linguistique)
KW  - Subjonctif
KW  - Temps (Linguistique)
KW  - Anglais (Langue)
KW  - Allemand (Langue)
KW  - Mood.
KW  - Subordinate constructions.
KW  - Subjunctive.
KW  - Tense.
KW  - Grammar, Comparative.
KW  - Grammaire comparée
KW  - English language -- Grammar, Comparative.
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general -- Mood.
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general -- Subjunctive.
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general -- Subordinate constructions.
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general -- Tense.
KW  - Languages & Literatures
KW  - Philology & Linguistics
KW  - Mood
KW  - Subordinate constructions
KW  - Subjunctive
KW  - Tense
KW  - Grammar, Comparative
KW  - Subordonnées (Linguistique)
KW  - Grammaire comparée
KW  - Ashkenazic German language
KW  - Hochdeutsch
KW  - Judaeo-German language (German)
KW  - Judendeutsch language
KW  - Judeo-German language (German)
KW  - Jüdisch-Deutsch language
KW  - Jüdischdeutsch language
KW  - Tense (Grammar)
KW  - Conjunctive mood
KW  - Subjunctive mood
KW  - Mode (Grammar)
KW  - Mood (Grammar)
KW  - Subordination (Linguistics)
KW  - Germanic languages
KW  - Temporal constructions
KW  - Verb
KW  - Syntax
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - Philology
UR  - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:470679
AB  - This monograph is one of the first theoretical studies of optatives. Optative constructions express desire without an overt lexical item that means 'desire'. The author specifically investigates optatives with the syntax of embedded clauses that contain prototypical particles such as 'only'. He rejects the view that optativity arises compositionally from the standard semantics of embedded clauses and prototypical particles. The following system is proposed: Desirability is due to a generalized scalar exclamation operator EX. Furthermore, clausal properties such as factivity/counterfactuality a
ER  -