Alternating conj/disjunctions: the case of Japanese "-toka" and "-tari"
- This paper investigates the interpretation of Japanese -toka and -tari, two nonexhaustive particles that receive conjunctive interpretations in upward-entailing environments, but disjunctive interpretations in downward-entailing and question contexts. We analyze -toka and -tari as items that introduce unstructured sets of alternatives in a Hamblin-style alternative semantics (Hamblin, 1973; Kratzer and Shimoyama, 2002), and derive their conjunctive and disjunctive readings via an interaction between these sets and the semantics of the environment containing them.
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| Author: | Ryan Walter Smith, Ryoichiro Kobayashi |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-558527 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.61.2018.503 |
| ISSN: | 1435-9588 |
| ISSN: | 0947-7055 |
| Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22, Vol. 2 / eds. Uli Sauerland and Stephanie Solt. Berlin, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft: ZAS papers in linguistics ; Nr. 61 |
| Publisher: | Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2020 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2018 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2020/09/16 |
| Tag: | -tari; -toka; Japanese; alternative semantics; conjunction; disjunction |
| Page Number: | 14 |
| First Page: | 393 |
| Last Page: | 406 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 470274271 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik | |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Semantik / Semantics |
| Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | ZAS papers in linguistics : ZASPiL / ZASPiL 61 = Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22, Vol. 2 |
| : | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-559361 |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |
