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92. Even if, factivity and focusElena Guerzoni, 2019, objavljeni znanstveni prispevek na konferenci Opis: Pollock (1976) observes that some, but not all, even-if-conditionals appear to convey the speaker’s commitment to the truth of their consequent, a phenomenon Lycan (1991) dubbed as the ‘consequent-entailment problem.’ Providing an account of this phenomenon within a unified and compositional theory of even-if-conditionals has proven to be far from trivial (c.f. Bennett 1982, Lycan 1991, Barker 1994, Lycan 2001, Bennett 2003). This paper argues that once the focus and scope of even (in the sense of Rooth 1985-1996’s theory of association with focus) are correctly singled out, the truth of the consequent in the relevant cases follows as an entailment of the assertion together with the existential presupposition of even. This view is argued to be preferable over previous attempts in that it provides a compositional and unified analysis of even if conditionals which builds on independently justified theories of even and of focus association (c.f. Horn 1969, Karttunen and Peters 1979, and Rooth 1985).
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Ključne besede: concessive conditionals, focus semantics, factivity
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99. Double negatives, Negative Concord and metalinguistic negationLuis Alonso Ovalle, Elena Guerzoni, 2002, objavljeni znanstveni prispevek na konferenci Opis: Spanish nadie, nada…) do not find a unified account in any of the existing analyses of
Negative Concord (NC): (i) their uses in the special context of denials and (ii) their
incompatibility with factive environments. We suggest that the unifying property of these
two apparently unrelated phenomena is the common sensitivity of these two
environments (denials and factives) to non-truthconditional aspects of meaning. Thereof
we take these properties to reveal that the meaning of n-words involves a nontruthconditional component. Specifically, we explore the hypothesis that n-words are
existential quantifiers at the truth-conditional level but that they contribute negative
existentials at the level of their conventional implicatures. This hypothesis explains the
special uses of n-words in denials and their incompatibility with factive environments.
The fact that they are restricted to the scope of negation (or more precisely averidical
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(Giannakidou’s 1997,2000)) in non-sentence-initial position follows as a
consequence of the relation between their implicature and their semantic contribution to
the truth conditions of the sentences they appear in. Under certain common additional
stipulations, this view can be extended to preverbal occurrences as well.
Ključne besede: negative concord, Italian, Spanish
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100. Even and minimizer NPIs in wh-questionsElena Guerzoni, 2003, objavljeni znanstveni prispevek na konferenci Opis: This work follows up on a previous paper of mine on y/n questions with ‘minimizer’ Negative Polarity Items (NPIs) like lift a finger, bat an eyelash, budge (an inch) (i.e. Guerzoni 2002) and brings into the picture the case of wh-questions. In the interest of space, the summary I provide of that paper is very brief; for a fuller understanding the reader should refer to the paper itself.
Ključne besede: minimizers, negative polarity, constituent questions
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