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Universal Quantifier as a Free Choice Savior

Authors

STRACHOŇOVÁ Hana

Year of publication 2014
Type Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Description We follow the classical approach to FCIs of Kadmon and Landman (1993) - treating Czech FCIs as indefinites with additional strengthening and widening licensing condition: they are licensed only in the contexts where they logically strengthen the meaning of the sentence (compared to regular indefinites). Logical strength is defined in terms of entailment: logically stronger statement asymmetrically entails the weaker one. FCI and n-word are no more competitors for insertion in the context of negated possibility modal, because each form corresponds to different meaning of the proposition.
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