Contrafactivity and mirativity in Spanish: remarks on creerse and pensarse
5 Nov 25 @ 15:00 – 17:00 – Abstract This presentation analyses the semantico-pragmatic behavior of Spanish predicates creerse ‘to believe’ and pensarse ‘to think’ (formed from the propositional attitude verbs creer and pensar with the clitic se). It has been proposed that these predicates are contrafactive; that is, that they presuppose the falsity of their complement (Di Tullio 2018, Anvari et al. 2019, Saab and Carranza […]
