A Grammatical View of Exhaustification with Focus Movement: Evidence from NPI-Licensing
Abstract
This paper offers an explanation to the NPI-licensing effect of only by incorporating focus movement into the grammatical view of exhaustification. The core assumption is that focus movement is motivated if interpreting focus in-situ yields a G-triviality/contradiction.
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Xiang, Y. (1). A Grammatical View of Exhaustification with Focus Movement: Evidence from NPI-Licensing. Proceedings of Sinn Und Bedeutung, 19, 677-694. https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2015.v19i0.299
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