Alternatives as sources of semantic dependency  

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F?al?au¸s, Anamaria

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 406–427.
Topik: ENGLISH LANGAUGE - SEMANTICS; alternatives; epistemic indefinites; polarity system; exhaustification
Fulltext: 406-427.pdf (174.49KB)

Isi artikel

The restricted distribution of the Romanian determiner vreun is puzzling in view of typologically familiar patterns of dependent indefinites. Focusing on its occurrences in modal and attitude contexts, I put forward a novel empirical generalization (‘the epistemic constraint’) and argue that its distribution is sensitive to epistemic alternatives. To account for this pattern, I endorse the unitary approach to polarity due to Chierchia (2006, 2010) and propose to derive the properties of vreun from its obligatory association with alternatives. The differences between vreun and other dependent indefinites are argued to follow from different conditions on the domain alternatives these items activate.

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