Surface non-conservativity in german

  • Proportional determiner quantifiers in German allow interpretations that violate the conservativity universal of Keenan and Stavi (1986). I argue for an analysis that distinguishes between surface syntax and the logical form of sentences. I show that in surface syntax, German non-conservative quantifiers are determiners that form a constituent with a noun phrase and share case and agreement properties with the noun phrase. But I propose that at logical form the non-conservative determiners undergo an adverbialization movement and are interpreted by a mechanism that generalizes focus-a ected quantification of Herburger (2000). This result refines the understanding of conservativity as a constraint on interpretation.

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Author:Uli Sauerland
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-385809
URL:http://www.cssp.cnrs.fr/eiss10/
ISSN:1769-7158
Parent Title (English):Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 10, ed. Christopher Piñón
Publisher:Colloqué de Syntax et Sémantique à Paris
Place of publication:Paris
Editor:Christopher Piñón
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Year of Completion:2014
Year of first Publication:2014
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Contributing Corporation:Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris = Syntax and Semantics Conference in Paris
Release Date:2015/11/18
GND Keyword:Thema-Rhema-Gliederung; Partitiv; Quantifizierung <Linguistik>
Volume:8
Page Number:18
First Page:125
Last Page:142
HeBIS-PPN:378105728
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 43 Deutsch, germanische Sprachen allgemein / 430 Germanische Sprachen; Deutsch
Sammlungen:Linguistik
BDSL-Klassifikation:02.00.00 Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft (in Auswahl) / BDSL-Klassifikation: 02.00.00 Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft > 02.02.00 Studien
Linguistik-Klassifikation:Linguistik-Klassifikation: Syntax
Linguistik-Klassifikation: Semantik / Semantics
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht