Intervention Effects in NPI-Environments: A Case of Scope Incompatibility?

DSpace Repository

Intervention Effects in NPI-Environments: A Case of Scope Incompatibility?

Freitag, Constantin
Dateien:
Thumbnail
2.18 MB
PDF
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10900/91250
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-dspace-912509
http://dx.doi.org/10.15496/publikation-32631
Dokumentart: ConferenceObject
Date: 2019-07-31
Language: English
Faculty: 5 Philosophische Fakultät
Department: Allgemeine u. vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
DDC Classifikation: 400 - Language and Linguistics
430 - Germanic languages; German
Keywords: Negativer Polaritätsausdruck , Numerale , Frage
Other Keywords:
NPI
intervention effect
quantifiers
wh-questions
License: http://tobias-lib.uni-tuebingen.de/doku/lic_mit_pod.php?la=de http://tobias-lib.uni-tuebingen.de/doku/lic_mit_pod.php?la=en
Order a printed copy: Print-on-Demand
Show full item record

Abstract:

Certain quantifiers have been suggested to be interveners in wh-questions and in NPI-licensing environments. The current study investigates NPI-licensing in German and presents evidence from acceptability judgments and self-paced reading which indicates that certain quantifiers indeed give rise to “intervention effects”. Surprisingly, however, the same effect was found in minimally different structures where the NPI was replaced by a non-NPI. We argue that these effects stem from scope incompatibilities of certain semantic operators and are independent of NPI-licensing.

This item appears in the following Collection(s)