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Exceptives and cardinality

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: There are two schools of thoughts on exceptives. The “Fintelians” take exceptives to be modifiers of the NP argument of the determiner, while the “Anti-Fintelians” take them to be something else. I present the observation that exceptives do not tolerate cardinal determiners. I then discuss the problem it poses for two Anti-Fintelian analyses and propose a Fintelian account. The main idea of the account is that exceptives introduce subdomain alternatives.

Source: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung

DOI: 10.13140/rg.2.2.11963.63520

Author: Trinh, Tue

Language: English

Topic: Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W6925537776

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