STRACHOŇOVÁ, Hana. Watch Out for the Universal Quantifier. In Veselovská, Ludmila; Janebová, Markéta. Complex Visibles Out There. Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium 2014: Language Use and Linguistic Structure. Olomouc: Palacký University, 2014, p. 439-456. ISBN 978-80-244-4384-3.
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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, Complex Visibles Out There. Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium 2014: Language Use and Linguistic Structure. p. 439-456, 18 pp. 2014.
Publisher Palacký University
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Original language English
Type of outcome Proceedings paper
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
Publication form printed version "print"
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RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14210/14:00079094
Organization unit Faculty of Arts
ISBN 978-80-244-4384-3
Keywords in English negation; Slavic; free choice items; competition in grammar
Tags rivok
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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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MUNI/A/0787/2013, interní kód MUName: Podpora studentských projektů na MU - obecná jazykověda a baltistika
Investor: Masaryk University, Category A
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