The Different Readings of Wieder 'Again': A Structural  

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Stechow, Arnim von

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Semantics (Sebagian Full Text) vol. 13 no. 2 (May 1996), page 87-138.
Topik: lexical ambiguity; resritutive ambiguity
Fulltext: vol 13, no 2, p 87-138.pdf (2.31MB)

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I will defend a purely structural account of the different readings arising from the German adverb wieder 'again'. We will be concerned with the so-called repeaave/resritutive ambiguity. The claim is that the ambiguity can be resolved entirely in terms of syntactic scope The theory assumes a rather abstract syntax. In particular, abundant use is made of Kratzer's (1994) voice phrase, which plays a central role for the derivation of repetitive readings. One of the leading ideas of the analysis is that the structural accusative position has wide scope with respect to the agent relation expressed by the head of the voice phrase. If wieder precedes an accusative object, a repetitive reading is obligatory. If wieder follows the accusative object, two readings are available due to two possible positions of wieder. The analysis is an improvement of the proposal of Stechow (1995) It solves a number of questions left open there and considers a range of new data.

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