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...

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Publicado en:Linguistics & Philosophy Vol. 43; no. 4; pp. 427 - 473
Autor principal: Charlow, Simon
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Aug2020
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