Some Remarks on Domain Widening
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چکیده
Since Kadmon and Landman’s influential 1993 paper (K&L), the insight that any serves as a domain widening indefinite has proven very productive. My objective in this paper is to discuss how we cash out that intuition. K&L tied any to the lifting of restrictions: In an NP of the form ‘any CN’, ‘any’ widens the interpretation of the common noun phrase (CN) along a contextual dimension.’ (K&L: 361). In the domain widening proposal, the lifting of restrictions was associated with a pragmatic constraint requiring strengthening. K&L did not develop a compositional account of this interaction (they kept the discussion at the lexical level). A compositional implementation can be found in Chierchia (2006), and it will be the basis for the discussion here. According to Chierchia (2006), any-effects arise through the interaction of the lexical entry of any together with pragmatic enrichment operators present in the structure of the sentence. Any is treated as a generalized quantifier, with the denotation in (1) (where D is a contextually salient domain of quantification, w is a possible world, and Dw is the set of members of D that live in w):
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