Economy and embedded exhaustification
Building on previous works which argued that scalar implicatures can be computed in embedded positions, this paper proposes a constraint on exhaustification (an economy condition) which restricts the conditions under which an exhaustivity operator can be licensed. We show that this economy condition...
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| author | Fox, Daniel Spector, Benjamin |
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| description | Building on previous works which argued that scalar implicatures can be computed in embedded positions, this paper proposes a constraint on exhaustification (an economy condition) which restricts the conditions under which an exhaustivity operator can be licensed. We show that this economy condition allows us to derive a number of generalizations, such as, in particular, the ‘Implicature Focus Generalization’: scalar implicatures can be embedded under a downward-entailing operator only if the (relevant) scalar term bears pitch accent. Our economy condition also derives specific predictions regarding the licensing of so-called Hurford disjunctions. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1288572022-09-30T11:24:44Z Economy and embedded exhaustification Fox, Daniel Spector, Benjamin Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Building on previous works which argued that scalar implicatures can be computed in embedded positions, this paper proposes a constraint on exhaustification (an economy condition) which restricts the conditions under which an exhaustivity operator can be licensed. We show that this economy condition allows us to derive a number of generalizations, such as, in particular, the ‘Implicature Focus Generalization’: scalar implicatures can be embedded under a downward-entailing operator only if the (relevant) scalar term bears pitch accent. Our economy condition also derives specific predictions regarding the licensing of so-called Hurford disjunctions. 2020-12-18T15:45:45Z 2020-12-18T15:45:45Z 2018-01 2020-09-24T20:37:06Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0925-854X 1572-865X https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/128857 Fox, Danny and Benjamin Spector. "Economy and embedded exhaustification." Natural Language Semantics 26, 1 (March 2018): 1–50 © 2018 Springer Science Business Media B.V. en https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-017-9139-6 Natural Language Semantics Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Springer Science+Business Media B.V. application/pdf Springer Science and Business Media LLC Springer Netherlands |
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