What Asymmetric Coordination in German tells us about the syntax and semantics of conditionals

Reich, Ingo

doi:10.1007/s11050-009-9041-y

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“…We conclude that (28) and similar cases of AC are instances of C -coordination and that therefore the overt subject der Hans from the first coordinate has no chance of being related to the subject position of the second coordinate by overt movement, since coordination takes place above der Hans. Wunderlich (1988), however, points out that SLFs are possible when the first coordinate is a verb-final clause, as in (33) (also see Höhle 1990;Reich 2009). 13 At first blush, such cases appear to contradict the C -coordination analysis and to support the subordination account.…”

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Asymmetric Coordination

Mayr

Schmitt

2017

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax, Second Edition

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This chapter discusses asymmetric coordination, starting with a general discussion and then zooming in on a particular instance thereof found in German and other V2 languages. This latter construction resists a straightforward analysis in terms of subordination, yet lacks some of the symptoms of coordinate structures – namely, the requirement that movement has to happen across‐the‐board. It therefore represents an interesting data set for the investigation of the nature of the symptoms of coordinate structures, or, more precisely, the Coordinate Structure Constraint. In particular, the construction reveals that one of the defining features of coordinate structures – namely that each coordinate must be individually licensed when substituted for the whole coordination – must play a crucial role in the formulation of the latter.

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Section: Subject Gapsmentioning

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Asymmetric Coordination

Mayr

Schmitt

2017

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax, Second Edition

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“…For compositional accounts which elaborate on the syntactic restrictor view, see among othersReich (2009),Khoo (2018).…”

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The restrictor view, without covert modals

Ciardelli

2021

Linguist and Philos

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The view that if-clauses function semantically as restrictors is widely regarded as the only candidate for a fully general account of conditionals. The standard implementation of this view assumes that, where no operator to be restricted is in sight, if-clauses restrict covert epistemic modals. Stipulating such modals, however, lacks independent motivation and leads to wrong empirical predictions. In this paper I provide a theory of conditionals on which if-clauses are uniformly interpreted as restrictors, but no covert modals are postulated. Epistemic if-clauses, like those in bare conditionals, restrict an information state parameter which is used to interpret an expressive layer of the language. I show that this theory yields an attractive account of bare and overtly modalized conditionals and solves various empirical problems for the standard view, while dispensing with its less plausible assumption.

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(Un)conditionals

Rawlins

2013

Nat Lang Semantics

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What Asymmetric Coordination in German tells us about the syntax and semantics of conditionals

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