Ana Arregui

Variation in Circumstantial Modality: Polish versus St'át'imcets

VARIATION IN CIRCUMSTANTIAL MODALITY: POLISH VERSUS ST’ÁT’IMCETS Marı́a Luisa Rivero University of Ottawa Ana Arregui University of Ottawa Ewelina Frąckowiak University of Ottawa Haugen, and Peter Norquest, 260–271. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. Larson, Richard. To appear. Essays on shell structure. London: Routledge. Parsons, Terence. 1991. Events in the semantics of English. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Pietroski, Paul. 2005. Events and semantic architecture. New York: Oxford University Press. Pylkkänen, Liina. 2002. Introducing arguments. Doctoral dissertation, MIT, Cambridge, MA. Pylkkänen, Liina. 2008. Introducing arguments. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Schein, Barry. 1993. Plurals and events. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Schein, Barry. To appear. Conjunction reduction redux. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Unconditional readings and the simple conditional tense in Spanish: inferentials, future-oriented intentionals, future-in-the-past

Abstract This paper offers a compositional interpretation of Spanish simple conditional morphology (cantaría ‘would sing’) in independent sentences set within the semantic situations framework. It proposes that Spanish simple conditional morphology is composed of (a) a past component that encodes a topic situation, (b) a universal future operator with either an epistemic flavor or a temporal (i.e. historical) flavor /accessibility, and (c) a universal imperfective operator with a variety of flavors. Based on the interactions of these three components, the paper develops derivations for (1) past-oriented inferential readings that distinguish Spanish from French and Italian, (2) future-oriented conditionals involving past plans, which are apparently shared with French and Italian, and (3) future-in-the-past conditionals, where Spanish appears to resemble French and differs from Italian.