The weak, the strong and the likelihood: experimental evidence from Slavic scalar particles

DOČEKAL, Mojmír and Iveta ŠAFRATOVÁ. The weak, the strong and the likelihood: experimental evidence from Slavic scalar particles. In Ambigo : Workshop on Ambiguity, Göttingen, 4-6 July 2018. 2018.

Basic information

• Original name: The weak, the strong and the likelihood: experimental evidence from Slavic scalar particles
• Authors: DOČEKAL, Mojmír (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Iveta ŠAFRATOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Ambigo : Workshop on Ambiguity, Göttingen, 4-6 July 2018, 2018.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Presentations at conferences
• Field of Study: 60203 Linguistics
• Country of publisher: Germany
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: webové stránky konference
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/18:00102984
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• Keywords in English: scalar particles; NPIs; likelihood; experimental linguistics; ambiguity
• Tags: rivok
• Tags: International impact

Abstract

We present experimental evidence concerning scalar particles and NPIs in Czech and Slovene. Experiments tested formally logical properties of particles, namely the monotonicity of the environment in which particles occur, and their acceptability with respect to the likelihood scale. The experimental results show that the ambiguous approach to *even* (according to Rooth) cannot be applied (at least in the case of Czech and Slovene scalar particles).

Links

• MUNI/A/0791/2017, interní kód MU: Name: Podpora výzkumu studentů na MU - obecná jazykovědy a baltistika 2018

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A