Year: 2017
Type: article
Abstract: The main aim of this study is to reconsider Tomioka’s (2007) pragmatic account of thelf-intervention effects (IE), and to claim that Polarity Sensitive Items (psis) are genuine syntactic interveners. I will examine the parallelism amongpsis in IE configurations, which is distinct from other interveners, and further claim that the study of IE should not be monolithic, but hybrid: Syntacticlf-interveners (psis), blocking scopal interactions/Pragmatic interveners, causing illegal information structures. The predictions will be borne out thatpsis actually cause IE in other contexts as well, which pragmatic accounts cannot explain ( Funakoshi & Takahashi 2014 ). Such hybrid perspectives bring back enormous findings on IE (e.g.lfwh-movement) to the field of syntax, without relegating all of them to pragmatics.
Source: Language and Linguistics 語言暨語言學
Author: Ryoichiro Kobayashi
Institution: Sophia University
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2575871349