Negative Islands and obviation by wa in Japanese degree questions  

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Schwarz, Bernhard ; Shimoyama, Junko

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 702–719.
Topik: JAPANESE LANGUAGE-GRAMMAR; Japanese -wa; degree questions; Negative Islands
Fulltext: 702-719.pdf (154.6KB)

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Abstract This paper aims to explain the observation (not previously reported) that -wa obviates Negative Island effects in Japanese degree questions. The explanation offered ties this obviation to epistemic implications associated with -wa, deriving the latter in a (Neo-)Gricean framework. The explanation relies on Fox & Hackl’s (2006) view that Negative Islands in degree questions are due to the necessary failure of a Maximality Presupposition, but it abandons their proposal that such presuppositions must be calculated under the assumption that scales of degrees are invariably dense.

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