Functional readings without type-shifted noun phrases

Heim, Irene

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“…We assume a 'head-raising' derivation of the RC, where the relative head NP is generated inside the RC and undergoes movement to its surface position (Schachter 1973;Vergnaud 1974;Bhatt 2002, among others). The high (pronounced) copy of the head NP is deleted and its low copy is converted into a definite description using the mechanism of Trace Conversion (Fox 2002, Sauerland 2004, Heim 2012).…”

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“…First, the RC Dan claims that he is a gifted mathematician is constructed by repeated application of external merge. 6 Then, the NP gifted mathematician is copied through internal merge, which we take to insert a binder below the copied NP (Heim and Kratzer 1998). Next, the definite article is externally merged.…”

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“…The [relative of his i ] that every man i likes best is his i mother (Geach 1964;Jacobson 1994Jacobson , 2002 Engdahl (1986) (for questions) and Sharvit (1999) and Jacobson (2002) (for RCs) posit a type-shifting operation along the lines of G&K's (5) that binds individual variables (rather than world variables) and shifts an NP into a predicate of functions of type e, e (rather than type-s, e functions). See Heim (2012) for an analysis of functional readings that uses syntactic reconstruction and forgoes type-shifting.…”

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Equational-intensional relative clauses with syntactic representation

Bassi¹,

Rasin²

2018

Zaspil

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Analyses of scope reconstruction typically fall into two competing approaches: ‘semanticreconstruction’, which derives non-surface scope using semantic mechanisms, and ‘syntacticreconstruction’, which derives it by positing additional syntactic representations at thelevel of Logical Form. Grosu and Krifka (2007) proposed a semantic-reconstruction analysisfor relative clauses like the gifted mathematician that Dan claims he is, in which the relativehead NP can be interpreted in the scope of a lower intensional quantifier. Their analysis relieson type-shifting the relative head into a predicate of functions. We develop an alternativeanalysis for such relative clauses that replaces type-shifting with syntactic reconstruction. Thecompeting analyses diverge in their predictions regarding scope possibilities in head-externalrelative clauses. We use Hebrew resumptive pronouns, which disambiguate a relative clausein favor of the head-external structure, to show that the prediction of syntactic reconstructionis correct. This result suggests that certain type-shifting operations are not made available byUniversal Grammar.Keywords: relative clauses, scope, reconstruction, type-shifting, de dicto, intensional quantifiers,binding, resumptive pronouns.

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Equational-intensional relative clauses with syntactic representation

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Rasin²

2018

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“…The main ingredient of the proposed theory, assuming the Copy Theory of Movement (Chomsky 1993), is a syntactic representation where only the low (unpronounced) copy of the relative head is semantically interpreted, as schematized in ( 8). As for the semantics, the theory draws on the semantics of syntactic reconstruction in Heim (2012).…”

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“…The [relative of his i ] that every man i likes best is his i mother (Geach 1964;Jacobson 1994Jacobson , 2002 Engdahl (1986) (for questions) and Sharvit (1999) and Jacobson (2002) (for RCs) posit a type-shifting operation along the lines of G&K's (5) that binds individual variables (rather than world variables) and shifts an NP into a predicate of functions of type he, ei (rather than type-hs, ei functions). See Heim (2012) for an analysis of functional readings that uses syntactic reconstruction and forgoes type-shifting.…”

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Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22, 1

Sauerland¹,

Solt²

2018

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Not all reconstruction effects are syntactic

Poole,

Keine

2024

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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This paper argues that not all reconstruction effects can be reduced to a syntactic mechanism that selectively interprets copies at LF. The argument is based on the novel observation that some but not all reconstruction effects induce Condition C connectivity in Hindi-Urdu. We contend that Hindi-Urdu requires the hybrid approach to reconstruction developed on independent grounds by Lechner (1998, 2013, 2019), where both copy neglect (a syntactic mechanism) and higher-type traces (a semantic mechanism) are available as independent interpretive mechanisms. We show that the interaction of these two modes of reconstruction derives the intricate reconstruction facts in Hindi-Urdu.

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Functional readings without type-shifted noun phrases

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Equational-intensional relative clauses with syntactic representation

Equational-intensional relative clauses with syntactic representation

Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22, 1

Not all reconstruction effects are syntactic

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