LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVES IN CAUSATION

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LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVES IN CAUSATION Isabelle CHARNAVEL (Harvard University) icharnavel@fas.harvard.edu Workshop: Linguistic Perspectives on Causation Thursday, June 29

Logophoric elements in causal clauses! Logophoric pronouns (1) Kofi be [ yè / e -dzo ]. Kofi say LOG / PRON-leave Kofi said [that he / he left]. [Ewe] (2) Kofi dzo [ela bena Ama kpɔ yè]. Kofi left because COMP Ama saw LOG Kofi left [because Ama saw him]. [Culy 1994: 1072]! Exempt anaphors (3) Takasi wa Taroo ni [Yosiko ga zibun o nikundeiru koto] o hanasita. Takasi TOP Taroo DAT Yosiko SUBJ SELF OBJ be-hating COMP OBJ told Takasi told Taroo [that Yosiko hated him]. [Japanese] (4) Takasi wa [Yosiko ga mizu o zibun no ue ni kobosita node] nurete-simatta Takasi TOP Yosiko SUBJ water OBJ self GEN on LOC spilled because wet-got Takasi got wet [because Yosiko spilled water on him]. [Sells 1987: 466] Cf. Clements 1975, Thráinsson 1976, Culy 1994, Sundaresan 2012, Charnavel 2014, a.o. 2

logophoric pronouns are used to refer to the person whose words, thoughts, knowledge or emotions are being reported in a stretch of discourse in Ewe all the constructions that allow logophoric marking contain the complementizer/verb be a question that remains unanswered is why the causal clauses [in Ewe] should use the logophoric subordinator as opposed to any other Culy (1994: 1072) 3

Hypothesis Causal clauses can express different perspectives. Causal relation endorsed by the attitude holder of A: j believes A the cause of A according to j is B A because B attitude holder of A causal judge j 4

Hypothesis Whose attitude s is B s? B usually expresses the causal judge j s perspective. But in some cases (if A = volitional event, experience), causal judge j does not necessarily believe B causal judge j can present B from the perspective of an event participant in A A because B causal judge j or j causal judge j event participant in A 5

Hypothesis A because B causal judge j causal judge j or event participant in A logophoric elements licensed only if coreferent with the perspective holder of B (1) Kofi dzo ela bena Ama kpɔ yè. Kofi left because COMP Ama saw LOG Kofi left because Ama saw him. " must be Kofi s reason for leaving 6

Preview of analysis! causal judge j local attitude holder AH i.e. = speaker/lowest attitude holder or speaker/lowest attitude holder + event participant in A " because relativized to a judge j silent subject of because! perspective center of B = causal judge or an event participant P whose mental reason for the action is presented by the causal judge " perspective center of B = syntactically represented logophoric operator at the periphery of B licensing logophoric elements in B Case #1: AH [ A P ][ j AH because [ B OP AH log AH ] Case #2: AH [ A P ][ j AH+P because [ B OP P log P ] Case #3: AH [ A P ][ j AH+P because [ B OP AH+P log AH+P ] 7

Outline Case study: English causal clauses introduced by because (and since)! Empirical observations: perspectival effects in because-clauses modifying matrix clauses! Analysis! Further corroborating empirical observations: perspectival effects in because/since-clauses modifying clauses embedded in attitude contexts 8

PERSPECTIVAL EFFECTS IN BECAUSE-CLAUSES modifying matrix clauses EMPIRICAL OBSERVATIONS causal judge j speaker perspective center of B = speaker or event participant in A A because B speaker speaker or (+ event participant in A) event participant in A 9

Speaker as causal judge Causal relation is a mental construct: established by a causal judge Cause sufficient condition See Lewis 1973, a.o., for discussion about the notion of cause (counterfactuality vs. regularity connection)! Speaker = causal judge (5) The tree fell because it was struck by lightning. inanimate (6) Liz left because she was tired. animate 10

Speaker as perspective center of B Perspectival elements in B can be speaker-oriented. A because B speaker speaker 11

Speaker as perspective center of B! Epithet (antilogophoric, cf. Ruwet 1990, Dubinsky & Hamilton 1998) (7) Liz left because the poor woman was exhausted.! Evaluative adverb (8) Liz left because strangely, she passed out.! Epistemic modal (9) Liz left because she must have been tired.! First-person exempt anaphor (10) Liz left because there was an embarrassing picture of myself going around. 12

Event participant in A as perspective center of B Perspectival elements in B can also be anchored to an event participant in A. A because B event participant in A = attitude holder of B 13

Event participant in A as attitude holder of B! Strong arguments o 1- Exempt anaphors read de se o 2- Epistemic modals o 3- Evaluative expressions These expressions must be relativized to an attitude holder " event participant in A = attitude holder of B! Corroborating arguments o 4- Deictic motion verbs o 5- Predicates of taste These expressions can be relativized to an attitude holder 14

Event participant in A as attitude holder of B Argument 1! Third-person exempt anaphors are licensed in B (11) a. Liz left because there was an embarrassing picture of herself going around. b. Sally wanted to win the science fair because it would show that girls like herself could be scientists.! Exempt anaphors are perspectival Cf. Clements 1975, Sells 1987, Kuno 1987, Pollard & Sag 1992, Charnavel & Zlogar 2016, a.o. (12) a. According to John, the article was written by Ann and himself. b. *Speaking of John, the article was written by Ann and himself. (13) a. The novelist hinted that her next book would be about authors like herself. b. *Pottery recovered from the sunken ship suggested that Mediterranean merchants were trading goods like itself much earlier than previously thought. 15

Event participant in A as attitude holder of B Argument 1! Third-person exempt anaphors in B must be read de se (14) Context: the picture is a nude picture of Liz showing her back, so that she mistakes it for a picture of her friend. Liz decides to leave the party because she thinks that the picture is embarrassing for her friend. Liz left because there was an embarrassing picture of her(#self) going around. 16

Event participant in A as attitude holder of B Argument 2! Epistemic modals (15) a. Liz left the party because things might have spiraled out of control. b. Airplanes frighten John because they might crash. (Stephenson 2007)! Epistemic modals must be anchored to the lowest attitude holder Cf. Hacquart 2010, a.o. (16) It might be raining. anchor = attitude holder = speaker (17) Sam thinks that it might be raining. anchor = attitude holder = Sam 17

Event participant in A as attitude holder of B Argument 3! Evaluative expressions in B o Evaluative adjectives (attributive, predicative) (11a) Liz left because there was an embarrassing picture of herself going around. (18) Sue voted for Trump because he is going to be a great President. o Evaluative adverbs (19) Liz left because unfortunately her car got towed.! Evaluative expressions must be anchored to attitude holders (20) a. An embarrassing picture of Liz was being mocked. anchor = speaker b. Liz thought that an embarrassing picture of her(self) was being mocked. anchor = Liz (de dicto) or speaker (de re) 18

Event participant in A as attitude holder of B Argument 4! Deictic motion verbs in B (21) Liz left because her enemy was about to come to her. only Liz must be at the goal of motion! The deictic center of come can be an attitude holder cf. Oshima 2007, a.o. (22) Liz came to Jerusalem. speaker (or addressee) is (mentally) located in Jerusalem (23) Liz said that Paul came to Jerusalem. speaker (or addressee) or Liz is (mentally) located in Jerusalem The deictic center of come can be a perspective center different from an attitude holder: (24) As Paul was living alone, his son came to visit him every day. 19

Event participant in A as attitude holder of B Argument 5! Predicates of taste (25) Liz left the party because the food was not tasty. not tasty to Liz! Predicates of taste can be anchored to attitude holders (26) The food is not tasty. not tasty to speaker (27) Liz thinks that the food is not tasty. not tasty to Liz The judge of predicates of taste can be different from an attitude holder: (28) The cat food might be tasty. tasty to the cat 20

A because B speaker speaker? event participant in A 21

A because B Case #1 speaker speaker Case #2 speaker + event participant in A event participant in A (29) #Liz left because there was an embarrassing picture of herself going around. But she thinks she left because she was bored. (30) #Liz left because there was an embarrassing picture of herself going around. But I think she left because she was bored. 22

Event participant in A as perspective center of B A because B Case #2 speaker + event participant in A event participant in A " speaker takes event participant s perspective to present cause B = mental reason of event participant in A for A 23

Event participant in A as perspective center of B (11a) Liz left because there was an embarrassing picture of herself going around. A = volitional event Liz = volitional agent B = Liz s reason for A " the speaker presents B from Liz s perspective since the cause is her (mental) reason cause: what is thought by an external observer to cause an event reason: what is thought by the internal event participant to cause the event (intentionally) 24

Event participant in A as perspective center of B! Event participant = mental o Volitional (11) a. Liz left because there was an embarrassing picture of herself going around. b. Sally wanted to win the science fair because it would show that girls like herself could be scientists. o Experiencer (15b) Airplanes frighten John because they might crash. (Stephenson 2007) vs. inanimate: (5) The tree fell because it was struck by lightning. 25

Event participant in A as perspective center of B! Cause = reason of event participant (11a) Liz left because there was an embarrassing picture of herself going around. " B = what Liz thought caused her departure (her own internal reason) vs. (31) In my opinion, Liz left because she was bored. " B = what the speaker thinks caused Liz s departure (speaker s cause of A) (32) Liz left, {since/because} her coat is not on the rack. " B =what the speaker thinks is evidence for Liz s departure (speaker s evidence for A) (33) Liz left, since you must know everything. " B = what the speaker thinks causes her assertion (speaker s reason for speech act A) 26

A because B Case #1 speaker speaker Case #2 speaker + event participant in A event participant in A AND speaker? 27

A because B Case #2 speaker + event participant in A event participant in A AND speaker? Answer: yes and no NO: only one perspective center in B (34) *Liz left the party because there was an embarrassing picture of herself and myself going around. YES: plural perspective center in B (35) Liz left the party because there was an embarrassing picture of ourselves going around. 28

PERSPECTIVAL EFFECTS IN BECAUSE-CLAUSES modifying matrix clauses SUMMARY OF EMPIRICAL OBSERVATIONS A because B Case #1 speaker speaker Case #2 speaker + event participant in A event participant in A Case #3 speaker + speaker + event participant in A event participant in A 29

PERSPECTIVAL EFFECTS IN BECAUSE-CLAUSES modifying matrix clauses ANALYSIS 30

Analysis: judge of causal relation Because is relativized to a judge j including the local attitude holder (i.e. the speaker in matrix clauses) [[ because (j) ]] w = λb.λa. w compatible with j s mental state in w, B is the cause of A in w j is a silent variable locally bound by the speaker in matrix clauses (the speaker is represented in the left periphery of root clauses; see Speas & Tenny 2003, Haegeman & Hill 2013, Zu 2015, a.o.) s [ A.. ][ j s because [ B. ] cf. modals (Stephenson 2007, Hacquart 2010, a.o.) 31

Analysis: judge of causal relation! Arguments for binding by local attitude holder: o binding: sloppy reading (36) - Liz left the party because she was tired. (according to me) - Lucy did too. (according to me/*you) o local binding: behavior in embedded attitude contexts (see later) " j includes only the lowest attitude holder. 32

Analysis: perspective center of B A because B Case #1 speaker speaker Case #2 speaker + event participant in A event participant in A Case #3 speaker + speaker + event participant in A event participant in A " syntactically represented logophoric operator OP at the periphery of B and controlled by j [ A.. ][ j because [ B OP. ] Cf. Koopman & Sportiche 1989, Kratzer 2006, Anand 2006, a.o. 33

A because B Case #1 speaker speaker Case #2 speaker + event participant in A event participant in A Case #3 speaker + speaker + event participant in A event participant in A Case #1 s[ A P ][ j S because [ B OP S ] Case #2 s[ A P ][ j S+P because [ B OP P ] Case #3 s[ A P ][ j S+P because [ B OP S+P ] " OP (partially) controlled by j 34

Analysis: perspective center of B! Motivations for assuming j and OP: o causal judge and perspective center of B can be different Case #2 s[ A P ][ j S+P because [ B OP P ] (37) #Liz left because there was an embarrassing picture of herself (*and myself) going around. But I/she think(s) she left because she was bored. o only one perspective center in B Cf. Huang & Liu 2001 for exempt ziji (34) *Liz left the party because there was an embarrassing picture of herself and myself going around. (35) Liz left the party because there was an embarrassing picture of ourselves going around. 35

Analysis: perspective center of B OP locally and exhaustively binds logophoric elements in B " explains licensing of exempt anaphors: in fact not exempt cf. Charnavel 2014 Case #1 s[ A P ][ j S because [ B OP S myself S ] Case #2 s[ A P ][ j S+P because [ B OP P herself P ] Case #3 s[ A P ][ j S+P because [ B OP S+P ourselves S+P ] 36

Analysis: event participant as perspective center of B Case #1 s[ A P ][ j S because [ B OP S myself S ] Case #2 s[ A P ][ j S+P because [ B OP P herself P ] Case #3 s[ A P ][ j S+P because [ B OP S+P ourselves S+P ] Cases #2-3: binding of causal judge j by event participant P in A 37

Analysis: event participant as perspective center of B perspective of event participant p in B " binding of p into B is (at least sometimes) possible i.e. because-clauses are low: modify VP! Pronominal binding (38) No girl left because there was a picture of herself going around. (39) No girl left because there was a picture of ourselves going around.! Condition C (40) *She left because there was an embarrassing picture of Liz going around.! Sloppy reading in VP-ellipsis (41) Liz left because there was an embarrassing picture of herself going around, and Lucy did too. cf. Rutherford 1970, Groupe Lambda-1 1975, Sæbø 1991, Iatridou 1991, Johnston 1994, a.o. 38

Analysis: event participant as perspective center of B no binding of p into B " no perspective of event participant p in B (42) a. *This documentary does not interest Trump, because it gives a bad image of himself. b. This documentary does not interest Trump, because it gives a bad image of him. c. This documentary does not interest Trump because it gives a good image of himself, but because (43) a. *Paul thinks [that Liz left] because Bill made comments about herself. b. Paul thinks [that Liz left] because Bill made comments about her. c. Paul thinks [that Liz left because Bill made comments about herself]. d. Paul thinks [that Liz left because Bill made comments about her]. 39

Analysis: event participant as perspective center of B Case #2 s[ A P ][ j S+P because [ B OP P herself P ] Case #3 s[ A P ][ j S+P because [ B OP S+P ourselves S+P ] VP p j because A OP B herself 40

Analysis: event participant as perspective center of B binding of p into B " perspective of event participant p in B (44) No tree fell because it was struck by lightning. (45) Liz did not leave because the poor woman had anything to do (but because...) (46) Chaque invité est parti parce que Paul s en est moqué. [French] Each guest left because Paul made fun of him ANTILOGOPHORIC " j not necessarily bound by closest binder: Case #1 s[ A P ][ j S because [ B OP S ] 41

Analysis: event participant as perspective center of B no binding of p into B " no perspective of event participant p in B since-clauses 42

Since-clauses! Evidential (32) Liz left, since her coat is not on the rack.! Speech act (33) Liz left, since you must know everything. vs.! Eventive (6) Liz left because she was tired. 43

Analysis: event participant as perspective center of B no binding of p into B " no perspective of event participant p in B since-clauses! No binding into B o No pronominal binding (47) *Every girl left since her coat is not on the rack. o No sloppy reading in VP-ellipsis (48) #Liz left since her coat is not on the rack, and Lucy did too. o No condition C effects (49) She left, since you must know everything about Liz. (50)?She left, since Liz s coat is not on the rack. " since-clauses attach very high (modify Evidential or Speech Act Phrases) cf. Cinque 1999, Speas & Tenny 2003 44

Analysis: event participant as perspective center of B no binding of p into B " no perspective of event participant p in B since-clauses! No perspective of event participant in B (51) *Liz left since there is an embarrassing picture of herself going around. (52) Liz left since there is an embarrassing picture of myself going around. (53) Liz must have left since unfortunately, her coat is not here. (54) Liz must be at work since her husband came to her office earlier. 45

Analysis: event participant as perspective center of B no binding of p into B " no perspective of event participant p in B since-clauses EvidP SAP s j p since B Cf. Case #1 s[ A P ][ j S since [ B OP S ] 46

PERSPECTIVAL EFFECTS IN BECAUSE-CLAUSES modifying matrix clauses SUMMARY OF ANALYSIS Case #2 s[ A P ][ j S+P because [ B OP P herself P ] S P j S+P because A OP P B herself P 47

PERSPECTIVAL EFFECTS IN BECAUSE-CLAUSES modifying matrix clauses SUMMARY OF ANALYSIS Case #3 s[ A P ][ j S+P because [ B OP S+P ourselves S+P ] S P j S+P because A OP S+P B ourselves S+P 48

PERSPECTIVAL EFFECTS IN BECAUSE-CLAUSES modifying matrix clauses SUMMARY OF ANALYSIS Case #1 s[ A P ][ j S because [ B OP S myself S ] S (P) j S because A (P) OP S B myself 49

In matrix clauses A because B Case #1 speaker speaker Case #2 speaker + event participant in A event participant in A Case #3 speaker + speaker + event participant in A event participant in A 50

More generally A because B Case #1 attitude holder of A attitude holder of A Case #2 attitude holder of A + event participant in A event participant in A Case #3 attitude holder of A + attitude holder of A + event participant in A event participant in A 51

PERSPECTIVAL EFFECTS IN BECAUSE-CLAUSES modifying embedded clauses (55) Paul thinks that Liz left because she was tired. thinks because because A (thinks...) B A B 52

Lowest attitude holder as judge of causal relation! Causal judge highest attitude holder (56) #Paul thinks that every plant died because he forgot to water it. But he thinks that the reason why they died is that they needed more light. " causal judge speaker (57) #Mary believes that Paul thinks that every plant died because he forgot to water it. But he thinks that the reason why they died is that they needed more light. " causal judge Mary 53

Lowest attitude holder as judge of causal relation S/H 1 [ H 2 thinks [ A P ][ j H2 because [ B ] *S/H 1 [ H 2 thinks [ A P ][ j S/H1 because [ B ] X 54

Lowest attitude holder as judge of causal relation S/H 1 [ H 2 thinks [ A P ][ j H2 because [ B ] *S/H 1 [ H 2 thinks [ A P ][ j S/H1 because [ B ] Because is relativized to a judge j including the local attitude holder [[ because (j) ]] w = λb.λa. w compatible with j s mental state in w, B is the cause of A in w j is a silent variable bound by the local attitude holder 55

Lowest attitude holder as perspective center of B S/H 1 [ H 2 thinks [ A P ][ j H2 because [ B OP H2 ] *S/H 1 [ H 2 thinks [ A P ][ j S/H1 because [ B OP S/H1 ] 56

Lowest attitude holder as perspective center of B! Perspective center of B = lowest attitude holder (58) Paul hopes that his book did not sell well because there was an embarrassing picture of himself going around, but because it was good. (59) Paul thinks that every plant is dying because it must need more water.! Perspective center of B highest attitude holder (60) *Paul thinks that every plant died because the idiot forgot to water it. (61)??Paul hopes that his book did not sell well because there was an embarrassing picture of myself in it, but because it was good. (62) #Paul thinks that every plant is dying because it must need more water. But he does not believe that the plants need more water. (63)??Madonna hopes that Paul thinks that his book did not sell well because there was an embarrassing picture of herself in it, but because it was good. (64) #Mary said that Paul thinks that every plant is dying because it must need more water. But he believes that the plants do not need more water. 57

Event participant as perspective center of B! Perspective center of B = event participant (65) Paul thinks that Liz did not leave because there was an embarrassing picture of herself going around, but because she was tired. (66) Paul thinks that Liz is not leaving because her husband must have arrived home, but because she is bored.! Only one perspective center of B (67) *Paul thinks that Liz did not leave because there was an embarrassing picture of herself and himself going around, but because she was tired. (68) Paul thinks that Liz did not leave because there was an embarrassing picture of themselves going around, but because she was tired. 58

Case #1 s [ A P ][ j S because [ B OP S myself S ] Case #2 s [ A P ][ j S+P because [ B OP P herself P ] Case #3 s [ A P ][ j S+P because [ B OP S+P ourselves S+P ] Case #4 S/H 1 [ H 2 thinks [ A P ][ j H2 because [ B OP H2 herself H2 ] Case #5 S/H 1 [ H 2 thinks [ A P ][ j H2+P because [ B OP P herself P ] Case #6 S/H 1 [ H 2 thinks [ A P ][ j H2+P because [ B OP H2+P ourselves H2+P ] 59

Since-clauses in attitude contexts! Evidential since-clauses are embeddable Cf. embeddability of EvidP (Speas 2004, Zu 2015, a.o.) (69) Liz must have malaria, since she has a fever. (70) Paul refuses to believe that since she has a fever, Liz must have malaria. Only under predicates of acceptance (cf. epistemic modals, Anand & Hacquart 2013): (71) Paul {thinks/*wants/*demands} that since her coat is not on the rack, Liz {left/*leave}.! Speech act since-clauses are not embeddable Cf. unembeddability of speech acts (discussion in Krifka 2014, a.o.) (33) Liz left, since you must know everything. (72) #Paul says that since his annoying interlocutor must know everything, Liz left. 60

Lowest attitude holder as judge of causal relation! Causal judge speaker (73) Context: I know that my neighbors turn the radio on when they leave to turn away potential thieves, but Paul does not. #Paul believes that since their radio is on, my neighbors must have left. Note: since-clauses are not-at-issue and factive in the sense that B must be believed by both the speaker and the attitude holder Cf. Charnavel 2017 (74) #Paul thinks that since there is a picture of him missing, Liz must have left with some of his belongings. But he does not think she took any picture.! Causal judge highest attitude holder (75) #Mary believes that Paul thinks that since their radio is on, my neighbors must have left, and according to her, Paul simply believes that my neighbors turn the radio off when they leave. 61

Lowest attitude holder as perspective center of B! Perspective center of B = lowest attitude holder (76) Paul thinks that since there is a picture of himself missing, Liz must have left with some of his belongings. (77) Paul thinks that since her horrible coat is not on the rack, Liz must have left.! Perspective center of B highest attitude holder (78) *Paul thinks that since there is a picture of the idiot missing, Liz must have left with some of his belongings. (79)??Paul thinks that since there is a picture of myself missing, Liz must have left with some of our belongings. (80)??Mary is afraid that Paul thinks that since there is a picture of herself missing, Liz must have left with some of their belongings. 62

More generally A because B Case #1 attitude holder of A attitude holder of A Case #2 attitude holder of A + event participant in A event participant in A Case #3 attitude holder of A + attitude holder of A + event participant in A event participant in A A since B Case #1 attitude holder of A attitude holder of A 63

Conclusion! Causal relation = mental construct " because/since relativized to a judge j that must include the local attitude holder AH2 [ AH1 [AH2 [ A P [ j AH2(+P) because [ B ]! Perspective center in B = AH2 or mental event participant in A if B is her internal reason for A " logophoric OP at the periphery of B (partially) controlled by j [ AH1 [AH2 [ A P [ j AH2(+P) because [ B OP AH2(+P)/P ] " multiple, but constrained perspectival effects in causal clauses What about other adjunct clauses? 64

Acknowledgements Thanks to the audiences of NELS47, GR30, LSRL47, SALT27 the Linguistics Departments at Stony Brook, Rutgers and UMass the Harvard graduate students taking my seminar last Fall (Ling205r) for helpful discussion about directly related topics THANK YOU FOR INVITING ME AND FOR LISTENING! This work is supported in part by the NSF under grants 1424054 & 1424336: http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showaward?awd_id=1424054 65

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