Witnessable quanti?ers license type-e meaning: Evidence from contrastive topic, equatives and supplements  

Oleh:

Constant, Noah

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: Proceedings of the 22nd Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, held at University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, May 18-20, 2012, page 286–306.
Topik: quanti?er; choice function; exceptional wide scope; wide-scope inde?nite; contrastive topic; equative; supplement
Fulltext: 3472-6778-1-PB.pdf (168.55KB)

Isi artikel

his paper presents three novel ways of testing which plural quanti?cational phrases can denote individuals (type e). Speci?cally, it is argued that only type-e expressions can (i) be marked as a contrastive topic in a discourse contrasting individuals, (ii) be equated with another type-e expression in an equative frame, and (iii) anchor supplementing material. The main empirical ?nding is that the class of quanti?ers allowing type-e nominal denotations is larger than assumed on classic accounts like Reinhart 1997. Furthermore, this class is characterizable in semantic terms. The quanti?ers that give rise to type-e meanings are WITNESSABLE in the sense of entailing the existence of an individual satisfying both their restrictor and their nuclear scope.

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