Invariantist ‘might’ and modal meaning change
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Yanovich, Igor
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July 2013
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Linguistics and Philosophy
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Yanovich, Igor. “Invariantist ‘might’ and Modal Meaning Change.” Linguist and Philos 36, no. 2 (April 2013): 175–180.
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Abstract
Invariantism proposed by Braun (Linguistics and Philosophy 35(6):461–489, 2012) aims to maintain full identity of semantic content between all uses of ‘might’. I invoke well-known facts regarding diachronic change in meanings of modals to argue that invariantism commits us to implausible duplication of familiar processes of lexical semantic change on the level of “lexical pragmatics”, with no obvious payoff.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-013-9133-5
