Toward a Semantic Theory of Universal NCIs

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Authors
Publication date 2024
Host editors
  • F. Carcassi
  • T. Johnson
  • S.B. Knudstorp
  • S. Domínguez Parrado
  • P. Rivas Robledo
  • G. Sbardolini
Book title Proceedings of the 24th Amsterdam Colloquium
Event Amsterdam Colloquium 2024
Pages (from-to) 408-414
Number of pages 7
Publisher Amsterdam: ILLC, University of Amsterdam
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract Negative Concord Items (NCIs) are quantificational expressions that must be licensed by a local negation. Though the licensing condition has often been characterized by syntactic terminologies, Kuhn (2022) pursued semantic characterization of the condition. This paper extends Kuhn’s analysis to NCIs with universal quantificational force, focusing on Japanese dare-mo. This is achieved by augmenting Hamblinian alternative semantics in Kuhn’s dynamic setup. The success of the analysis provides further support for merging dynamic semantics and alternative semantics.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://platform.openjournals.nl/PAC/article/view/21870
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