On the tri-ambiguous status of any: The view from child language  

Oleh:

Barker, Chris ; Shan, Chung-chieh

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: Proceedings of the 20th Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, held at Vancouver, British Colombia, April 29 - May 1, 2010, page 19-37.
Topik: negotiation of meaning; negative polarity; polarity sensitive items; NPI licensing; free choice; acquisition
Fulltext: 19-37.pdf (139.76KB)

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This paper examines the monolingual acquisition of the English polaritysensitive item any, and uses evidence from child language acquisition to shed light on two questions that arise from the theoretical semantics literature. First, evidence from child spontaneous speech production is used to argue that children are grammatically conservative in their acquisition of negative polarity item (NPI) licensing. The same child data are then used to argue the following: (i) there is only one NPI any, subject to a disjunctive licensing condition; (ii) NPI any differs in some way from free choice (FC) any, resulting in the later emergence of FC any.

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