Free Choice under Ellipsis

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ID20344263
AuthorsLuka Crnič (0000-0003-4172-0218, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume34
Issue2
Pages249-294
Publication date2017-10-26
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Linguistic Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0167-6318 • E-ISSN: 1613-3676
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/tlr-2017-0002
OpenAlexW2620913721
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited26

The ellipsis of a VP whose antecedent contains an occurrence of so-called free choice any is highly constrained: it is acceptable only if the elided VP is appropriately embedded. We show that while this is unexpected on the common approaches to free choice and ellipsis, it is predicted on a theory of any that takes its domain to stand in a dependency relation with a c-commanding alternative-sensitive operator (cf. Lahiri 1998, Focus and negative polarity in Hindi. Natural Language Semantics 6(1). 57–123) and that takes free choice inferences to be generated by covert exhaustification in grammar (e.g., Fox 2007, Free choice and the theory of scalar implicatures. In Uli Sauerland & Penka Stateva (eds.), Presupposition and implicature in compositional semantics , 71–120. Palgrave Macmillan; Chierchia 2013, Logic in grammar . Oxford: Oxford University Press)

Covert · Generative grammar · Grammar · Implicature · Linguistics · Negation · Pragmatics · Presupposition · Advanced Algebra and Logic · Computer Science · Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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