Sentences with exhaustification
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(1) a. What did Mary eat? b. Mary ate a pizza. c. Mary ate a pizza and a calzone. As an answer, we can think of (1b) as being ruled out by (1c), because (1c) is more exhaustive, in the sense that it contains additional true information. A number of researchers (e.g., Kuno 1972, Atlas & Levinson 1981, Horn 1981, Szabolcsi 1981, É. Kiss 1998) have noted that exhaustification effects are not limited to questions. More precisely, there are a range of syntactic and phonological devices for signalling “exhaustive listing” interpretations. For example, the cleft (2a) and the pseudocleft (2b) both require such an interpretation:
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تاریخ انتشار 2001