Exclusive Particles in Ga (Kwa)

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ID22882153
AuthorsAgata Renans (0000-0001-5209-4588, University of Ulster, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume34
Issue4
Pages555-585
Publication date2017-11-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Semantics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0167-5133 • E-ISSN: 1477-4593
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/jos/ffx005
OpenAlexW2734775167
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited15

Exclusive particles, which have been attested in a wide range of languages, give rise to a rank-order interpretation and/or to an exhaustive interpretation. Based on novel data from Ga, the paper identifies an exclusive particle that not only gives rise to the exhaustive meaning but also operates on an NP denotation allowing, for example, plural count nouns to be combined with an indefinite determiner which encodes the cardinality ‘one’. In particular, the paper shows that the Ga exclusive particle too functions as Landman's (1989, 2010, 2013) group-forming operator. The Ga data thus extend the typology of exclusive particles and point to a previously unattested variation in the semantics of exclusives in a cross-linguistic perspective.

Combinatorics · Denotation (semiotics) · Determiner · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Noun · Operator (biology) · Plural · Rank (graph theory) · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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