Universität Tübingen
Indefinite Intervention Effects: How Focus Intervention Restricts the Scope of Indefinites
Abstract
This dissertation proposes an alternative-based semantic analysis of inde nites and their extraordinary behaviour with regard to scope and binding. The empirical basis of this approach is data which shows that these behaviours are restricted by focus evaluating operators in a way that suggests that these are Beck-effects (Beck 1996b, 2006). The analysis itself combines Kratzer and Shimoyama (2002)'s approach to inde nites with a focus evaluating version of Heim (1982)'s existential closure and an Elbournian approach to definite descriptions (Elbourne 2013) to account for a much larger set of data than previous accounts, including the aforementioned Beck-effects. The last part of this dissertation shows how this account can be profitably employed in other areas as well, such as the analysis of polarity items and free choice items. untranslated
Author and committee
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- Sachs, Johannes Gregor Konstantin
Identifiers
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- hdl:10900/86948