So as a weak degree expression  

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Castroviejo-Miró, Elena

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: Proceedings of the 21st Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, held at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, May 20 - 22, 2011, page 76–94.
Topik: so; enough; gradability; modality; anaphora; familiarity; focus
Fulltext: 76-94.pdf (208.36KB)

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This paper aims to answer three questions about the degree expression so in English: (i) what semantics does it contribute? (I.e., in what ways is so different from enough?) (ii) how can we explain its restricted distribution? And (iii) how does the that-clause compose with so? I point out that equating enough and so (as has been done in the literature) is problematic, and I propose that a new approach that establishes an analogy between so and weak pronouns can yield satisfactory answers to questions (i)–(iii). In a nutshell, I argue that there are two sos: a strong (deictic) one and a weak (anaphoric) one. I concentrate on weak so and show that its limited distribution has to do with the informational properties of weak items more generally. I further claim that its accompanying that-clause is not a complement of so, but rather an adjoined sentence that provides a bona fide focus to the sentence.

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