Free-choice and reduplication A study in Breton dependant indefinites
| hal.structure.identifier | Centre de recherche sur la langue et les textes basques [IKER] | |
| dc.contributor.author | JOUITTEAU, Mélanie | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-83-8061-115-3 | |
| dc.description.abstractEn | Indefinites are felicitous with a reading where, internally to a contextually relevant set, the particular choice of referent is irrelevant. When a magician says ''Pick a card'', context favors an interpretation where any card from the set would be a felicitous choice, as long as it is a card from the proposed set, as illustrated for modern Breton (Continental Celtic) in (1)a. Some indefinite constructions have this free-choice reading as the only felicitous one. This paper closely investigates such a [[free choice indefinite]] (FCI) that presents a typologically unusual morphology as illustrated in (1)b. This free-choice indefinite is realized by [[reduplication]] of the head noun around what seems like a spatial proximate deictic morpheme (''-mañ-''). The relevant contrast with the regular indefinite ''ur gartenn'' in (1)a is loss of optionality for the free-choice reading. The sentence in (1)a is felicitous if the magician proposes only one card, whereas (1)b is not. (1)DURING A SHOW, THE MAGICIAN SAYS: a. ''Trapit ur gartenn''. Pick a card 'Pick a card.’ b. ''Trapit kartenn-mañ-kartenn''. pick card-here-card 'Pick a card, any card.’Breton In this paper, I will first investigate the DP-internal syntax and morphology of the reduplication construction in (1)b. I will propose that it results from the creation of a complex head noun by reduplication in a morphological step operated between syntax and phonological form. Next, I investigate the distribution of the Breton reduplicated FCI. I show that when preceded by a specificity marker, this construction behaves like a regular indefinite. When not preceded by this specificity marker, the noun exhibits the typical distributional restrictions of dependent indefinites. I will show that the bare use has existential quantificational force, but can acquire universal force when bound by a universal quantifier. | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.source.title | Representations and Interpretations in Celtic Studies | |
| dc.subject | réduplication | |
| dc.subject | indéfinis | |
| dc.subject | Linguistique bretonne | |
| dc.subject | quantification | |
| dc.subject | linguistique celtique | |
| dc.subject.en | Free choice items | |
| dc.subject.en | syntax | |
| dc.subject.en | Breton grammar | |
| dc.subject.en | Breton linguistics | |
| dc.subject.en | Celtic linguistics | |
| dc.subject.en | indefinites | |
| dc.subject.en | Reduplication | |
| dc.title.en | Free-choice and reduplication A study in Breton dependant indefinites | |
| dc.type | Chapitre d'ouvrage | |
| dc.subject.hal | Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Linguistique | |
| hal.identifier | hal-02269523 | |
| hal.version | 1 | |
| hal.origin.link | https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr//hal-02269523v1 | |
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