Watch Out for the Universal Quantifier

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Watch Out for the Universal Quantifier
Original language description
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 explainsthe 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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Publication year
2014
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
Complex Visibles Out There. Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium 2014: Language Use and Linguistic Structure.
ISBN
9788024443843
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Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
439-456
Publisher name
Palacký University
Place of publication
Olomouc
Event location
Olomouc
Event date
Jan 1, 2014
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
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