-hii: Modality Meets Exclusivity
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چکیده
We present evidence from two experiments demonstrating that the Hindi focus particle -hii is sensitive to variable scalar endpoints, and we relate these findings to previous work on only and modality to unify the taxonomy of exclusive particles with formalized notions of speaker expectations. Only, and other exclusives in English, can appeal to a set of rank-ordered scalar alternatives. Such particles presuppose that ‘at least’ the prejacent is true, and assert that ‘at most’ the prejacent is true, thereby picking out a weak, minimal element on the scale and asserting that alternative as the upper bound (Coppock & Beaver (2014)). Hindi has several exclusives (sirf, bas, keval) that function equivalently to only, but the clitic -hii has extra presuppositional meaning, as in (1).
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