Not Too Strong! Generalizing the Scope Economy Condition
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.Downloads
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Mayr, C., & Spector, B. (2019). Not Too Strong! Generalizing the Scope Economy Condition. Proceedings of Sinn Und Bedeutung, 14, 305–321. Retrieved from https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/474
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