Distributivity Strengthens Reciprocity, Collectivity Weakens It  

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Filip, Hana ; Carlson, Gregory N.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Linguistics and Philosophy=> ada di SpringerLink 1997(vol.1) - Mutakhir; JSTOR vol. 24 no. 4 (Aug. 2001), page 417-466.
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In this paper we examine interactions of the reciprocal with distributive and collective operators, which are encoded by prefixes on verbs expressing the reciprocal rela tion: namely, the Czech distributive po- and the collectivizing na-. The theoretical import of this study is two-fold. First, it contributes to our knowledge of how word-internal operators interact with phrasal syntax/semantics. Second, the prefixes po- and na- generate (a range of) readings of reciprocal sentences for which the Strongest Meaning Hypothesis (SMH) proposed by Dalrymple et al. (1998) does not make the right predictions. The distributive prefix po- prefers the Strong Reciprocity reading, although the SMH predicts that a weak ening should take place, while with the prefix na- we find cases where weaker reciprocal readings are preferable to the stronger ones predicted by the SMH. This behavior ofpo- and na- is, we propose, due to the way in which they modulate two factors that are crucial in the interpretation of reciprocal sentences: (i) the relevant subpluralities in the group denoted by the reciprocal's antecedent, and (ii) the strength of reciprocal relations. We provide a detailed analysis of the semantics of the prefixes po- and na- and their contribution to the meaning of reciprocal sentences within the general framework of event semantics with lattice structures.

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