ONLY: An NPI-licenser and NPI-unlicenser1
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This paper looks at the distributional pattern of NPIs under the exclusive focus particle only. Despite the commonly accepted view that only can license an NPI that appears within the unfocused part of its immediate scope, Wagner (2006) observes evidence contra this view from both DP-only and VP-only: (i) DP-only does not license an NPI that appears within the unfocused part of its left argument; (ii) VP-only does not license an NPI if this NPI and the focused item appear within the same island. I adopt the operation of F-movement fromWagner (2006) and the basic idea of the grammatical view (Chierchia 2006, 2013) that an NPI is licensed iff assessing its [D] feature does not yield a G-triviality. Moreover, to capture the generalizations (i)-(ii), I argue that only is not just an NPIlicenser but also an “NPI-unlicenser”: when only operates on the D-alternatives of an NPI, it returns an inference that contradicts the prejacent presupposition, making the NPI unlicensed.
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تاریخ انتشار 2015