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PURPOSE EXPRESSIONS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF VOLITIVE NPs

PURPOSE EXPRESSIONS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF VOLITIVE NPs Linguistics 182, pp. 53-65. © Mouton Publishers, 1976. CHISATO KITAGAWA It is noteworthy that purpose adverbials in English headed by in order to have often been employed, almost as a matter of fact, as a test-frame to diagnose a feature such as 'agentive' (e.g. Gruber 1967) or 'volitive' (e.g. Cruse 1973). Conceivably, this is due to a tacit assumption that it is part of the general condition of these sentences with in order to (henceforth referred to as'PEs') that their matrix subjects represent the purposer, endowed with deliberate intent and volition, who willfully initiates the purposeful act described. Faraci 1974 allows the irrelevancy of volitionality in case the matrix clause contains a conditional predicate (necessary, sufficient, need) or certain modals, but he too claims the correlation otherwise of an in order to clause (his term 'rationale clause') with volitionality; as he puts it, in order to clauses 'connote motivation and, hence, attribute volitionality to the matrix subject' (54). When viewed from the vantage point of the grammar of PEs, however, these assumptions on volitionality of the matrix subjects and/or predicates of PEs prove to be of doubtful value. Articulating the problem in terms of the verbal feature 'voluntative', http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Linguistics - An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences de Gruyter

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Linguistics 182, pp. 53-65. © Mouton Publishers, 1976. CHISATO KITAGAWA It is noteworthy that purpose adverbials in English headed by in order to have often been employed, almost as a matter of fact, as a test-frame to diagnose a feature such as 'agentive' (e.g. Gruber 1967) or 'volitive' (e.g. Cruse 1973). Conceivably, this is due to a tacit assumption that it is part of the general condition of these sentences with in order to (henceforth referred to as'PEs') that their matrix subjects represent the purposer, endowed with deliberate intent and volition, who willfully initiates the purposeful act described. Faraci 1974 allows the irrelevancy of volitionality in case the matrix clause contains a conditional predicate (necessary, sufficient, need) or certain modals, but he too claims the correlation otherwise of an in order to clause (his term 'rationale clause') with volitionality; as he puts it, in order to clauses 'connote motivation and, hence, attribute volitionality to the matrix subject' (54). When viewed from the vantage point of the grammar of PEs, however, these assumptions on volitionality of the matrix subjects and/or predicates of PEs prove to be of doubtful value. Articulating the problem in terms of the verbal feature 'voluntative',

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Published: Jan 1, 1976

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