Deriving the positive polarity behavior of plain disjunction

Nicolae, Andreea C.

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“…This concludes the overview of the analysis proposed in Nicolae 2016Nicolae , 2017. The theory of positive polarity plain disjunctions, as put forth in these works, can account for the first two properties of positive polarity outlined in the first section.…”

Section: Rescuing By a Second Negationmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…In recent work (Nicolae 2016(Nicolae , 2017 I argued that the PPI behavior of plain disjunction can be thought of as the interplay between a semantic requirement for obligatory exhaustification and an economy condition which prevents vacuous exhaustification, coupled with the possibility of plain disjunction to prune its scalar alternative. The goal of this paper has been to extend this analysis to account for the shielding property of PPIs, as well as their ability to take narrow scope with respect to extra-clausal negations.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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“…Nicolae's (2017) goal is to maintain a similar analysis to that proposed by Spector (2014) for soit soit, namely one reliant on obligatory Exh, yet crucially one that doesn't invoking the obligatory not both SI like in the case of soit soit. In other words, the goal is to generalize Spector's constraint to the following:…”

Section: Nicolae (2016 2017) On Plain Disjunction Ppismentioning

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“…The analysis will take the acceptability of PPIs under extra-clausal negation to correlate with their acceptability under negation in the presence of a shielding operator. The paper is organized as follows: Section 2 overviews the analyses presented in Spector 2014; Nicolae 2016Nicolae , 2017 for positive polarity disjunctions. Section 3 presents a novel account for the shielding property of positive polarity and Section 4 extends this analysis to account for the acceptability of positive polarity disjunctions in the scope of extra-clausal negations.…”

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“…In recent work Nicolae (2016Nicolae ( , 2017, following Spector's (2014) analysis of complex disjunctions like French soit soit 'either or', provides an account for the first two properties of positive polarity disjunctions. The goal of this paper is to show how that proposal can be extended to account for the second two properties, namely shielding and locality of anti-licensing.…”

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A new perspective on the shielding property of positive polarity

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In certain languages, disjunctions exhibit positive polarity behavior, which Szabolcsi (2002) argues can be diagnosed via the following four properties: (i) antilicensing: no narrow scope interpretation under a clausemate negation, (ii) rescuing: acceptable in the scope of an even number of negative operators, (iii) shielding: acceptable under a clausemate negation if a universal quantifier intervenes, and (iv) locality of anti-licensing: acceptable in the scope of an extra-clausal negation. In recent work, Nicolae (2016, 2017), building on Spector 2014, argues that what distinguishes PPI disjunctions from polarity insensitive disjunctions is the fact that PPI-disjunctions obligatorily trigger epistemic inferences. That analysis, however, only accounts for the first two PPI properties. This paper extends that analysis to account for the second two properties, concluding that they should be seen as instantiations of the same phenomena, namely shielding by a universal quantifier.

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Section: Rescuing By a Second Negationmentioning

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Section: Nicolae (2016 2017) On Plain Disjunction Ppismentioning

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A new perspective on the shielding property of positive polarity

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Quantity Implicatures

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Sauerland²

2020

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Quantity implicatures have been intensely debated since Grice's programmatic work more than 50 years ago. Grice assumed quantity implicatures could be derived entirely from general maxims of conversation not specific to language. His approach, however, was seen to be insufficient because of maxim selection, alternative choice, and embedded implicatures. This chapter contrasts Grice's approach with two alternative approaches. First, it discusses the neo‐Gricean approach, which inserts a bit of grammar in the form of lexical scales into Grice's approach. Then it turns to the grammatical approach, which assumes that there is a mechanism akin to implicature computation that applies entirely within language. The empirical evidence currently favors the grammatical approach, but the approach is still undergoing rapid development.

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Deriving the positive polarity behavior of plain disjunction

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A new perspective on the shielding property of positive polarity

A new perspective on the shielding property of positive polarity

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