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Not Too Strong! Generalizing the Scope Economy Condition

Year: 2010

Type: article

Abstract: Fox (1995, 2000) argued that covert scope shifting operations (CSSOs) such as QR or reconstruction are subject to a semantic economy condition: they are not licensed if they are semantically vacuous. In this paper, we argue for a generalization of this condition according to which a CSSO is ruled out not only if it is vacuous, but also if it leads to a reading that is strictly stronger than the surface-scope reading.

Source: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung

Authors: Clemens Mayr, Benjamin Spector

Language: German

Topic: Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W3000071185

FWCI: 36.55

Cites: 18

Cited by: 73

Related to: 10