Cumulative readings of distributive conjunctions : Evidence
from Czech and German

D 2022

Cumulative readings of distributive conjunctions : Evidence from Czech and German

DOČEKAL, Mojmír, Nina HASLINGER, Eva ROSINA, Magdalena ROSZKOWSKI, Iveta ŠAFRATOVÁ et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Cumulative readings of distributive conjunctions : Evidence from Czech and German

Authors

DOČEKAL, Mojmír (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Nina HASLINGER (40 Austria), Eva ROSINA (40 Austria), Magdalena ROSZKOWSKI (276 Germany), Iveta ŠAFRATOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Viola Petra SCHMITT (276 Germany), Marcin WĄGIEL (616 Poland, belonging to the institution) and Valerie WURM (40 Austria)

Edition

Cologne, Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 26, p. 239-257, 19 pp. 2022

Publisher

University of Cologne

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Stať ve sborníku

Field of Study

60203 Linguistics

Country of publisher

Germany

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

electronic version available online

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/22:00129290

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISSN

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.18148/sub/2022.v26i0.998

Keywords in English

distributive conjunction; cumulativity; distributivity; cumulativity asymmetries

Abstract

V originále

We present new data showing that cross-linguistically a class of conjunction strategies usually considered purely distributive exhibit cumulative readings in object position. This is similar to the pattern found for every-DPs (Kratzer 2003; Champollion 2010 a.o.) and German jed-DPs (Haslinger and Schmitt, 2018), suggesting all these elements form a natural class. Our evidence stems from experiments on Czech A i B and German sowohl A als auch B (‘A as well as B’) using a Semantic Choice Task (Lohiniva and Panizza 2016). In the crucial items, participants saw pictures of a cumulative scenario and a scenario making both the cumulative and the distributive reading false, and had the option of selecting one scenario or rejecting both. In both languages, cumulative scenarios were accepted more often with the conjunction in object position than with the conjunction in subject position. Further, as surface subjects of passive sentences patterned with objects of active sentences and topicalized objects with non-topicalized objects, passivization and topicalization do not seem to affect cumulative readings.

Links

GA20-16107S, research and development project

Name: Struktury část-celek napříč jazyky

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

Citovat

DOČEKAL, Mojmír, Nina HASLINGER, Eva ROSINA, Magdalena ROSZKOWSKI, Iveta ŠAFRATOVÁ, Viola Petra SCHMITT, Marcin WĄGIEL and Valerie WURM. Cumulative readings of distributive conjunctions : Evidence from Czech and German. Online. In Gutzmann, Daniel; Repp, Sophie. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 26. Cologne: University of Cologne, 2022, p. 239-257. ISSN 2629-6055. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.18148/sub/2022.v26i0.998.

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DOČEKAL, Mojmír, Nina HASLINGER, Eva ROSINA, Magdalena ROSZKOWSKI, Iveta ŠAFRATOVÁ, Viola Petra SCHMITT, Marcin WĄGIEL and Valerie WURM. Cumulative readings of distributive conjunctions : Evidence from Czech and German. Online. In Gutzmann, Daniel; Repp, Sophie. \textit{Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 26}. Cologne: University of Cologne, 2022, p.~239-257. ISSN~2629-6055. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.18148/sub/2022.v26i0.998.

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