Mere-desire and action-oriented bouletics in French
Résumé
The paper explores a variety of bouletic attitudes in French (and Italian), which it envisions in the light of the distinction between mere-desire and action-oriented volition. It shows that avoir envie (and avere voglia) are not rational and not action oriented, while espérer and vouloir are rational with only vouloir being action oriented. It substantiates these notions by providing several semantic tests, which include consideration of the temporal orientation of the attitudes. The analysis is cast in framework that distinguishes between experiential and actionable spaces for bouletic attitudes and derives the facts from the properties of the modal spaces that are lexically triggered. For vouloir, it proposes a default action-orientation interpretation that can be manipulated by the conditional and adverbs like tellement. The analysis allows the conditional and the adverbs to manipulate the actionable modal base accommodated by default. By setting three different types of modal bases for bouletic attitudes, the paper paves the way for a cross-linguistic systematization that hinge on three different conceptualizations of the attitude holder, as a sentient being, a rational agent or an actor.
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Linguistique
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