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Coppock, Elizabeth ; Beaver, David

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 197–217.
Topik: Exclusives; Negative polarity; Alternatives; Questions; Dynamic Semantics
Fulltext: 197-217.pdf (168.97KB)

Isi artikel

We propose a unified analysis of exclusives, taking into account NP- and VP-modifying only as well as just and the adjectival exclusives mere, sole, only, single, and exclusive. Using paraphrases with at most and at least, we argue that exclusives uniformly signify a presupposed lower bound and an ordinary content upper bound on the true alternative answers to the current question under discussion, thus extending Beaver and Clark 2008. We propose that exclusives vary along two parameters: (i) the ontological type of their arguments; (ii) constraints on the question under discussion. Due to variation in the type parameter, exclusives exhibit different scopes, leading to different NPI licensing properties. To formalize our analysis, we introduce a dynamic semantics that treats questions under discussion as part of the context and allows for binding into these questions.

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