Generalized focus intervention  

Oleh:

Li, Haoze ; Law, Jess

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: Proceedings of the 24th Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, held at New York University, May 30th - June 1st, 2014, page 473-493.
Topik: focus intervention; alternative semantics; non-interrogative wh; disjunction
Fulltext: 27. 2416-2704-1-PB.pdf (167.54KB)

Isi artikel

In a recent article (Li & Law 2014), we argue that focus intervention is a manifestation of inappropriate quantificational domains of focus-sensitive operators, resulting from the interaction of focus alternatives and ordinary alternatives. The theory predicts that expressions introducing ordinary alternatives should all be subject to focus intervention, just as interrogative wh-phrases are. This paper bears out the prediction with non-interrogative wh-phrases and disjunctive phrases.

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