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Chapter 3. How French sheds new light on scalar particles

Abstract

This paper examines the behavior of the French scalar focus-sensitive particles même, quand même, ne serait-ce que, and seulement as compared to English even and only. I first show that French même displays a more restricted distribution than even; this behavior and that of its antonym quand même argue for the scope theory against the ambiguity theory of even. Secondly, I demonstrate that the behavior of ne serait-ce que and seulement reveal the existence of an intrinsic link between even-like particles and only-like particles. To capture this observation, and more generally the organic relation between scalar particles, I propose a new, parsimonious, theory that builds scalarity, additivity, and exclusivity of scalar particles into a conjunctive or disjunctive meaning.

Abstract

This paper examines the behavior of the French scalar focus-sensitive particles même, quand même, ne serait-ce que, and seulement as compared to English even and only. I first show that French même displays a more restricted distribution than even; this behavior and that of its antonym quand même argue for the scope theory against the ambiguity theory of even. Secondly, I demonstrate that the behavior of ne serait-ce que and seulement reveal the existence of an intrinsic link between even-like particles and only-like particles. To capture this observation, and more generally the organic relation between scalar particles, I propose a new, parsimonious, theory that builds scalarity, additivity, and exclusivity of scalar particles into a conjunctive or disjunctive meaning.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Part I. Syntax-semantics
  5. Chapter 1. Embedding verbs and subjunctive mood 9
  6. Chapter 2. Towards a unified treatment of Spanish copulas 33
  7. Chapter 3. How French sheds new light on scalar particles 53
  8. Chapter 4. Pluralities of events 77
  9. Part II. Morphosyntax
  10. Chapter 5. Laísmo and “le-for-les” 101
  11. Chapter 6. The morphological markedness of φ 127
  12. Chapter 7. Partial subject paradigms and feature geometry in Northern Occitan dialects 147
  13. Chapter 8. Automatic detection of syntactic patterns from texts with application to Spanish clitic doubling 169
  14. Part III. Bilingualism and language acquisition
  15. Chapter 9. Voice quality transfer in the production of Spanish heritage speakers and English L2 learners of Spanish 191
  16. Chapter 10. Null subjects in the early acquisition of English by child heritage speakers of Spanish 209
  17. Chapter 11. Return to Frenchville 229
  18. Chapter 12. The processing of intrasentential anaphoric subject pronouns in L2 Spanish 247
  19. Index 265
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 11
Ein Kapitel aus dem Buch Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 11
https://doi.org/10.1075/rllt.11.03cha

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Part I. Syntax-semantics
  5. Chapter 1. Embedding verbs and subjunctive mood 9
  6. Chapter 2. Towards a unified treatment of Spanish copulas 33
  7. Chapter 3. How French sheds new light on scalar particles 53
  8. Chapter 4. Pluralities of events 77
  9. Part II. Morphosyntax
  10. Chapter 5. Laísmo and “le-for-les” 101
  11. Chapter 6. The morphological markedness of φ 127
  12. Chapter 7. Partial subject paradigms and feature geometry in Northern Occitan dialects 147
  13. Chapter 8. Automatic detection of syntactic patterns from texts with application to Spanish clitic doubling 169
  14. Part III. Bilingualism and language acquisition
  15. Chapter 9. Voice quality transfer in the production of Spanish heritage speakers and English L2 learners of Spanish 191
  16. Chapter 10. Null subjects in the early acquisition of English by child heritage speakers of Spanish 209
  17. Chapter 11. Return to Frenchville 229
  18. Chapter 12. The processing of intrasentential anaphoric subject pronouns in L2 Spanish 247
  19. Index 265
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