TY - JOUR AU - Ahn, Dorothy PY - 2019/05/11 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The semantics of additive either JF - Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung JA - SuB VL - 19 IS - 0 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/219 SP - 20-35 AB - <p>Focus particles <em>too</em> and additive <em>either</em> have been analyzed as fully presuppositional elements that presuppose an existence or reference of some salient antecedent. In this paper, I propose an alternative account of <em>too</em> and <em>either</em>, where they are two-place predicates taking as arguments the overt proposition they adjoin to and a silent propositional anaphor. While <em>too</em> asserts<br />a conjunction of the two arguments, <em>either</em> asserts a disjunction of the two arguments. The main advantages of this proposal are that <em>too</em> and <em>either</em>’s non-presuppositional behavior is accounted for, and that the conjunction-disjunction switch has implications on additive either’s NPI behavior.</p> ER -