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Linglib.Theories.Syntax.Minimalism.SpeechActs

Pragmatic roles determined by structural position in SAP.

@cite{speas-tenny-2003}: these are NOT primitives — they are configurationally assigned by position in the Speech Act Phrase:

  • SPEAKER = Spec-SAP (external argument of SA)
  • HEARER = complement of SA (internal argument)
  • SEAT OF KNOWLEDGE = varies by mood
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      Speas & Tenny's central result: 4 sentence moods from 2 binary features.

      contentFinitehearerCCommandsMood
      truefalsedeclarative
      truetrueinterrogative
      falsetrueimperative
      falsefalsesubjunctive
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          Map configurational mood to framework-agnostic illocutionary mood. The mapping is injective: all four SAPMood constructors embed into IllocutionaryMood, but .exclamative has no SAPMood counterpart (exclamatives are not derived in S&T's 2×2 matrix). S&T's "subjunctive" maps to the illocutionary promissive — both encode [-finite, speaker-oriented] speech acts.

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            seatOfKnowledge (Speas & Tenny, configurational) agrees with moodAuthority (SpeechActs.lean, framework-agnostic) via the toIllocutionaryMood bridge. Both encode the same generalization: declarative/imperative/subjunctive → speaker, interrogative → addressee.

            def Minimalism.Phenomena.SpeechActs.resolveRole {W : Type u_1} {E : Type u_2} {P : Type u_3} {T : Type u_4} (ctx : Core.Context.KContext W E P T) :
            PRoleE

            Resolve a P-role to a discourse participant via KContext.

            SPEAKER = context agent, HEARER = context addressee. SEAT OF KNOWLEDGE defaults to agent (use resolveRoleInMood for mood-sensitive resolution).

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              def Minimalism.Phenomena.SpeechActs.resolveRoleInMood {W : Type u_1} {E : Type u_2} {P : Type u_3} {T : Type u_4} (ctx : Core.Context.KContext W E P T) (m : SAPMood) :
              PRoleE

              Mood-sensitive role resolution: SEAT OF KNOWLEDGE is resolved through seatOfKnowledge before mapping to a KContext participant.

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                theorem Minimalism.Phenomena.SpeechActs.speaker_is_agent {W : Type u_1} {E : Type u_2} {P : Type u_3} {T : Type u_4} (ctx : Core.Context.KContext W E P T) :

                Discourse role of a pronoun entry (theory-side, not baked into fragment). Determined entirely by the person feature.

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                  Discourse role is determined entirely by person feature.

                  Functional projections in the Sentience Domain.

                  Below SAP, the Sentience Domain mediates between the speech act layer and the propositional content. It hosts two projections:

                  • EvalP (Evaluation Phrase): specifier = SEAT OF KNOWLEDGE, the sentient mind that evaluates the proposition's truth.
                  • EvidP (Evidential Phrase): specifier = EVIDENCE, the type of evidence supporting the evaluation.

                  Hierarchy (structure 34 in S&T):

                  SAP > EvalP > EvidP > episP (= TP)
                  

                  The Sentience Domain captures "judgements and evaluations by a sentient mind on the truth-value of the proposition" (p.333).

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                      Rank ordering of Sentience Domain projections. EvidP < EvalP < SAP (the SAP itself is above the Sentience Domain).

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                        The specifier of EvalP hosts a P-role: SEAT OF KNOWLEDGE.

                        This is the sentient mind performing the evaluation. In declaratives, this is the SPEAKER; in interrogatives, the HEARER (same as seatOfKnowledge, since EvalP is where the seat is structurally projected).

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                          The specifier of EvidP hosts the evidence type.

                          Maps S&T's EVIDENCE argument to the framework-agnostic EvidentialSource from Core/Discourse/Evidence.lean:

                          • direct → sensory observation
                          • inference → reasoning from effects
                          • hearsay → reported evidence
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                            Bridge to Core/Discourse/Epistemicity.lean: the Sentience Domain's two specifiers (SEAT OF KNOWLEDGE + EVIDENCE) correspond to EpistemicProfile's two main fields (authority + source).

                            S&T Sentience DomainCore.Epistemicity
                            EvalP spec (Seat)EpistemicProfile.authority
                            EvidP spec (Evidence)EpistemicProfile.source

                            The structural hierarchy (EvalP > EvidP) corresponds to authority scoping over source: WHO evaluates is determined before HOW they know.