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Decomposing cornering effects: an experimental study [Online resource]
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In: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22, Vol. 1 / eds. Uli Sauerland and Stephanie Solt. Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft: ZAS papers in linguistics ; Nr. 60 (2018), 175-190
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A unified semantics for the Japanese Q-particle ka in indefinites, questions and disjunctions
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In: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics; Vol 3, No 1 (2018); 14 ; 2397-1835 (2018)
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Abstract:
This paper provides a compositional semantics for the Japanese Q-particle ka that properly accounts for its use in questions, indefinites and disjunctions in a unified fashion. Adopting the two-tier alternative semantics (Rooth 1985; Beck 2006), I will propose that the role of the ka-particle is always to project a set of alternatives introduced by the wh-item in the alternative-semantic dimension to the ordinary-semantic dimension (Kotek 2014). Unlike in previous analyses, I will adopt this semantics for the Q-particle not only for its clause-final use, but also for clause-internal use. Combining this with the cross-categorial existential closure, the analysis accounts for how the interpretation of a ka-ending phrase is conditioned by its syntactic environments. This mechanism enables an account of the previously unexplained parallelism between wh+ka and ka-disjunctions in their variability in interpretations.
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Keyword:
alternative questions; disjunctions; Japanese; ka; Q-particle; Semantics; Theoretical Linguistics; wh-indefinites; wh-questions
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URL: https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.238
https://www.glossa-journal.org/jms/article/view/238
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