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Additive free choice items
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In: ISSN: 0925-854X ; EISSN: 1572-865X ; Natural Language Semantics ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03093716 ; Natural Language Semantics, Springer Verlag, In press (2021)
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International audience ; In this paper, we aim to account for the distribution and interpretation of a novel class of free choice items in Romanian, to which we refer as additive free choice items (ADD-FCIs). We show that the internal composition of ADD-FCIs, as well as their distribution, differs from that attested for other free choice paradigms discussed in the literature. Morphologically, ADD-FCIs are a more complex variant of the regular universal FCIs, by virtue of an additional morpheme. This morpheme plays an additive role when it functions as a stand-alone particle, and we propose that its role is similarly additive when it functions as an infix in ADD-FCIs. Couched in an exhaustification framework, we put forward a novel compositional account that can derive the interpretation of these ADD-FCIs. As for their distribution, these elements are only found in the presence of the conditional mood, as well as unconditional structures. We show how our analysis, coupled with the Viability constraint used to explain the distribution of regular FCIs, can also account for their restricted distribution. In doing so, we further show how the pattern we investigate opens new perspectives regarding the licensing of free choice items in unconditionals.
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[SCCO.LING]Cognitive science/Linguistics; additives; alternatives; disjunction; exhaustification; MESH: free choice; mood; semantics; unconditionals
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URL: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03093716/document
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03093716/file/Falaus%26%20Nicolae%202021_Additive_FCIs.pdf
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03093716
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(Partially) Free choice of alternatives
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In: ISSN: 0165-0157 ; EISSN: 1573-0549 ; Linguistics and Philosophy ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01133698 ; Linguistics and Philosophy, Springer Verlag, 2014, 37 (2), pp.121-173. ⟨10.1007/s10988-014-9146-8⟩ ; http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10988-014-9146-8 (2014)
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On Alternatives in Imperatives: The Case of Romanian 'vreun'
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In: Sinn und Bedeutung 16 ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01324028 ; Sinn und Bedeutung 16, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics, Sep 2011, Utrecht, Netherlands. pp.239-252 ; http://mitwpl.mit.edu/open/sub16/ (2011)
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