Deriving Distributivity from Discourse
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This paper discusses the structure that incorporates information from discourse to derive distributivity. Following a proposal by López (2009) to account for the interpretation shown in the canonical focus structure using the notion “contrast”, I suggest that the feature “contrast” assigned to the edge of CP results in distributivity to the extent that distributivity occurs if and only if predicate and plural meet the structural condition. To get the distributive reading the distributive predicate targets the plural which is either from the sentence or from a combination of sentence and discourse. From the perspective of the plural to be distributed, distributivity is target independent.
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