{"title":"The Semantics of Modal QAD in Standard Arabic","authors":"A. Helal","doi":"10.47012/jjmll.15.1.3","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The behavior of modal QAD in Standard Arabic presents a twofold puzzle: first, QAD has an inherent epistemic-denoting conversational background with its lexically-encoded quantificational force being controlled by the temporal-aspectual properties of QAD's prejacent. Second, universal QAD triggers an actuality entailment by default. We resolve this puzzle by proposing a compositional analysis of modal QAD that derives QAD's lexically-encoded duality of force and accounts for universal QAD's automatic implicativity.\nKeywords: Epistemic-Denoting, Lexically-Encoded Quantificational Force, Actuality Entailment.","PeriodicalId":197303,"journal":{"name":"Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literatures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literatures","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.47012/jjmll.15.1.3","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The behavior of modal QAD in Standard Arabic presents a twofold puzzle: first, QAD has an inherent epistemic-denoting conversational background with its lexically-encoded quantificational force being controlled by the temporal-aspectual properties of QAD's prejacent. Second, universal QAD triggers an actuality entailment by default. We resolve this puzzle by proposing a compositional analysis of modal QAD that derives QAD's lexically-encoded duality of force and accounts for universal QAD's automatic implicativity.
Keywords: Epistemic-Denoting, Lexically-Encoded Quantificational Force, Actuality Entailment.
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