STRACHOŇOVÁ, Hana. Watch Out for the Universal Quantifier! In Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium. 2014.
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Original name Watch Out for the Universal Quantifier!
Authors STRACHOŇOVÁ, Hana (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium, 2014.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Presentations at conferences
Field of Study 60200 6.2 Languages and Literature
Country of publisher Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14210/14:00075722
Organization unit Faculty of Arts
Keywords in English free choice items; modal semantics; semantics of alternatives; Czech; negation; Bagel problem
Tags rivok
Changed by Changed by: PhDr. Aleš Bičan, Ph.D., učo 64391. Changed: 12/3/2015 13:36.
Abstract
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).
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