A compositional intersective account of Heterofunctional Coordination
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چکیده
The analysis presented in this paper extends the uniform intersective (“boolean”) treatment of conjunctive coordinators to Heterofunctional Coordination (HC), i.e., coordination different grammatical functions. A compositional account HC based on mainstream derivational syntax is proposed, one that makes Champollion’s (2015) “quantificational event semantics” compatible with syntax. assumption, common Minimalism, traces moved quantifiers denote domain restrictions rather than just variables.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Semantics and Linguistic Theory
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2163-5943', '2163-5951']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v1i0.5333