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Free Choice Readings of Disjunctive Sentences and Implicatures of ExistenceFree Choice Readings of Disjunctive Sentences and Implicatures of Existence
- Other Titles
- Free Choice Readings of Disjunctive Sentences and Implicatures of Existence
- Authors
- 염재일
- Issue Date
- 2013
- Publisher
- 한국언어과학회
- Keywords
- disjunction; Free Choice Effect; implicature of existence; scalar implicature; meaning contribution; conjunction; 이접; 자유선택효과; 존재 함축; 척도함축; 의미기여; 연접
- Citation
- 언어과학, v.20, no.1, pp.243 - 264
- Journal Title
- 언어과학
- Volume
- 20
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 243
- End Page
- 264
- ISSN
- 1225-2522
- Abstract
- There are cases where a disjunction sentence reads like the corresponding conjunction sentence. It is called a Free Choice Effect(= FCE). Simons(2005), Klinedinst(2006) and Fox(2006) attempted to account for the effect, but they are not fully successful. In this paper, I employ the positive features of their analyses and avoid the problems with them. Simons's analysis implies that each disjunct makes a separate meaning contribution. No syntactic analyses like Klinedinst's or Fox's, which take FCEs as part of scalar implicatures, can account for FCEs. I claim that in a disjunction structure, each disjunct makes a separate meaning contribution to a quantifier which has wide scope over the disjunction structure. I call them implicatures of existence. The implicatures should in turn contribute to the meaning of the whole sentence
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