Watch Out for the Universal Quantifier!

STRACHOŇOVÁ, Hana. Watch Out for the Universal Quantifier! In Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium. 2014.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Watch Out for the Universal Quantifier!

Autoři

STRACHOŇOVÁ, Hana (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí)

Vydání

Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium, 2014

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Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60200 6.2 Languages and Literature

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/14:00075722

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

free choice items; modal semantics; semantics of alternatives; Czech; negation; Bagel problem

Štítky

rivok

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Anotace

V originále

We build on the assumption of Pereltsvaig 2006 that Slavic FCIs don't occur in the scope of the sentential negation (although according to Kadmon and Landman 1993 the negation as DE operator should license them) because of the morphological blocking by negative indefinites (n-words). This explanation works in cases where both propositions (the one with an FCI and the other with an n-word) have the same meaning. That is not the case of (5) and (6); see the formalization in (7) for sentence in (5) and in (8) for sentence in (6). We extend the approach of Aloni 2007b and argue that the universal quantifier over alternatives introduced by the possibility modal context is responsible for the different truth conditional meaning of (5) and (6), which explains the fact that both FCI and n-words are acceptable in the same syntactic environment (in contrast to the sentential negation only).