https://www.ling.sinica.edu.tw/main/zh-tw?/sign/talk0522 Additivity and scalarity at the syntax-semantics interface 日期：2023-05-22 10:00-12:00 主講人：廖偉聞 副研究員 會議地點：中央研究院人文社會科學館(南棟5樓519會議室) It is generally assumed that both additive and scalar presuppositions are triggered by the focus-sensitive particle even, yet there are cases where one of the presuppositions can be cancelled. In this talk we show that the two EVENs in Mandarin Chinese (shenzhi and lian.dou/ye) may provide a clue to this question. Specifically, we show that the clausal EVEN (shenzhi) always triggers a strong scalar presupposition, and its additive presupposition is cancelled when the alternatives are mutually incompatible. Meanwhile, the phrasal EVEN (lian.dou/ye) displays a mirrored pattern where the additive presupposition is strong and the scalar one can be seriously weakened. We also observe that the scalar presuppositions triggered by the two EVENs in Chinese can involve different scales. The clausal shenzhi always calls for a scale that is based on a contextually supplied gradable property that addresses the non-focused part (Greenberg NLS 26, 51–83, 2018). We propose that the clausal shenzhi in Mandarin Chinese is a speaker-oriented element (Shyu JCL 32, 71– 128, 2004), and the speaker can compare different accessible worlds when they are mapped to degrees on a contextually supplied scale. On the other hand, we argue that the inherent additive particle lian.dou/ye, or the phrasal EVEN, obtains its scalar meaning by being associated with the clausal shenzhi or by activating a covert emphatic assertion operator (Krifka SALT 1, 127–158, 1991 ; SALT 8, 111-128, 1998). The scalar presupposition can be weakened when the clausal EVEN operator associates with the additive particle lian ‘include’ itself. Such an association mode has an effect in trivializing the scalar presupposition of the lian.dou/ye sentence. We support our claims by examining multiple-focus sentences in Chinese and the cross-linguistic patterns of additive particles that can convey a scalar meaning. --

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