The scope of alternatives: indefiniteness and islands.
I argue that alternative-denoting expressions interact with their semantic context by taking scope. With an empirical focus on indefinites in English, I show how this approach improves on standard alternative-semantic architectures that use point-wise composition to subvert islands, as well as on in...
| Publicado en: | Linguistics & Philosophy Vol. 43; no. 4; pp. 427 - 473 |
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Springer Nature
Aug2020
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