Forking paths and polarity items licensing
- There is an elegant account, proposed by Beaver and Condoravdi (2003), that assumes that the temporal connectives before and after are converses (i.e., they are analyzed by means of a unified lexical schema), and that explains away their different logical and veridical behavior appealing to other factors. There is an elegant explanation that connects the licensing of Polarity Items to informational strengthening requirements: Polarity Items are viewed as existentials that lead to a widening of the domain of quantification, and they are predicted to be legitimate only when this widening leads to a stronger statement (roughly, in downward monotone contexts). My plan is to connect these two approaches – by proposing an amendment in the definition Beaver and Condoravdi presented for before and after that is meant to account also for their Polarity Items licensing behavior.
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| Author: | Francesca Panzeri |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-309785 |
| URL: | http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/188.html |
| ISSN: | 1435-9588 |
| ISSN: | 0947-7055 |
| Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the Sinn und Bedeutung 10 : 10th annual meeting of the Gesellschaft für Semantik, October 13 - 15, 2005, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin; ZASPil Vol. 44 |
| Publisher: | Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2006 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2006 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2013/11/14 |
| GND Keyword: | Lexikologie; Formale Semantik; Polarität; Temporalsatz; Consecutio temporum; Konjunktion; Englisch |
| Volume: | 44 |
| Page Number: | 9 |
| First Page: | 265 |
| Last Page: | 273 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 378088777 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 42 Englisch, Altenglisch / 420 Englisch, Altenglisch |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Syntax |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: Semantik / Semantics | |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: Lexikologie/Etymologie / Lexicology/Etymology | |
| Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | ZAS papers in linguistics : ZASPiL / ZASPiL 44 = Proceedings of the Sinn und Bedeutung 10 |
| : | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-306872 |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
