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>From: Dick Hudson <dick@linguistics.ucl.ac.uk>
>Subject: Re: Message from Ira Noveck
>Cc: israel@eva.mpg.de
>
>This is something that Michael Israel has written a lot about. His web site
>(at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig) is http://www.eva.mpg.de/~israel/.
>His PhD (1998) was called "The Rhetoric of Grammar: scalar reasoning and
>polarity sensitivity." and he's published too:
>
> 1999.
> Some and the pragmatics of indefinite construal. Berkeley Linguistics
>Society 25.
> 1998.
> Ever: Polysemy and Polarity Sensitivity. Linguistic Notes from La
>Jolla 19.
> 1997.
> The Scalar Model of Polarity Sensitivity: the case of the aspectual
>operators. Negation:
> Syntax and Semantics. D. Forget, P. Hirschbühler, F. Martineau & M-L.
>Rivero (eds.).
> Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. pp. 209-230.
> 1996.
> Polarity Sensitivity as Lexical Semantics. Linguistics and Philosophy
>19: 619-666.
> 1996.
> The Way Constructions Grow. In Conceptual Structure, Discourse and
>Language. Adele
> Goldberg, (ed.). Stanford: CSLI. pp. 217-230.
> 1995.
> Negative Polarity and Phantom Reference. Berkeley Linguistics Society
>21.
> 1994.
> Variation and the Usage-Based Model. With Suzanne Kemmer. In Chicago
>Linguistics
> Society 30, Papers from the Parasession on Variation and Linguistic
>Theory.
>His story about NPIs strikes me as pretty persuasive!
>Dick
>
>At 20:53 02/05/2000 +0100, you wrote:
>>>Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 20:04:44 +0200
>>>To: relevance@linguistics.ucl.ac.uk
>>>From: Ira NOVECK <noveck@isc.cnrs.fr>
>>>Subject: Negative Polarity Items
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>>>
>>>Hello everyone,
>>>
>>>I've been impressed by an overlap -- pointed out to me and others by
>>>Gennaro Cherchia -- concerning scalar implicatures and Negative Polarity
>>>items (NPI's). For instance, for both kinds of phenomena, there is a
>>>suspension (of the implicature in one case and of the conditions for the
>>>licensing of the NPI in the other) when placed in an antecedent of a
>>>conditional. To illustrate briefly, first with implicatures, consider the
>>>"or" in (1) and (2):
>>>
>>>(1) If you score an 80 on the standardized test or have 5-years
>>>experience, then you are qualified for this job.
>>>
>>>In (1) the inclusive-disjunction appears to be called for; compare it to
>>>(2) where the exclusive-disjunction appears to be in force.
>>>
>>>(2) Everybody here is male or european.
>>>
>>>The same holds for NPI's. In (3), the NPI's (anyone; anything) are part of
>>>a well-formed sentence as long as they remain part of the antecedent.
>>>Independent of the antecedent, they are no longer acceptable, as in (4).
>>>
>>>(3) If anyone notices anything unusual, report it to the police.
>>>(4) *Anyone notices anything unusual.
>>>
>>>The overlap applies to question-forms as well...which leads me to the
>>>following indirect request:
>>>
>>>Has anyone on the list addressed this sort of overlap or written on NPI's
>>>from a Relevance perspective?
>>>
>>>Yours,
>>>
>>>Ira
>>>
>>>
>>>Ira Noveck
>>>Institut des Sciences Cognitives
>>>CNRS
>>>67 Blvd. Pinel
>>>69675 Bron FRANCE
>>>
>>>Tel. (de la France): 04 37 91 12 68
>>>Tel. (from abroad): + 33 4 37 91 12 68
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>Richard (= Dick) Hudson
>>Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London,
>Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT.
>+44(0)20 7679 3152; fax +44(0)20 7383 4108;
>http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/dick/home.htm
>
>
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Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Tel 020 7679 3174
Fax 020 7383 4108
URL http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/robyn/home.htm
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