ConSOLE 28 2020 • Universitat Pompeu Fabra

An alternative-based theory of distributivity: Non-local floating quantifiers and contextual monotonicity

Takanobu Nakamura

The University of Edinburgh

takanobu.Nakamura@ed.ac.uk
Floating numeral quantifiersJapaneseMonotonicity analysis

Abstract

In this paper, I discuss the distributivity and locality of floating numeral quantifiers in Japanese. The challenge is that they are weakly distributive and selectively local. Building on Nakanishi’s (2008a) event-based monotonicity analysis, I propose an alternative-based monotonicity analysis: floating numeral quantifiers presuppose monotonic ordering of alternatives, which can be based on logical entailment or informativity. This analysis derives an appropriate degree of distributivity and locality for floating numeral quantifiers in Japanese.

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Takanobu Nakamura (2020). an alternative-based theory of distributivity: non-local floating quantifiers and contextual monotonicity. In Proceedings of ConSOLE 28, edited by Astrid van Alem, Mirella De Sisto, Elisabeth J. Kerr, Joanna Wall, (pp. 1-24).

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@inproceedings{nakamura-quantifiers-2020, title={An alternative-based theory of distributivity: Non-local floating quantifiers and contextual monotonicity}, author={Takanobu Nakamura}, booktitle={Proceedings of ConSOLE 28}, year={2020}, pages={1-24}, editor={Astrid van Alem and Mirella De Sisto and Elisabeth J. Kerr and Joanna Wall} }

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