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Wh -questions and predication in Mayan
This paper examines the syntax of quantificational expressions in Chuj, a Mayan language spoken primarily in Guatemala and Mexico. Building on Royer, Buenrostro & Jenks (2026), we argue that Chuj quantifiers fall into two distinct syntactic categories. Some quantifiers function exclusively as determiners , while...
Justin Royer, C. Buenrostro, Rodrigo Ranero
· Journal of Linguistics · 0 citations
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The pragmatics of the Chinese marked zero anaphor
This article discusses emergent empirical data about the Mandarin Chinese collective suffix ‑men, in that it is able to mark a zero anaphor. This is a marked zero pronoun, a covert element (a zero anaphor) marked by an overt element (‑men). The licensing of this anaphoric element has yet to be captured, which is appr...
Darcy Sperlich
· International Review of Prag... · 0 citations
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The copula as a discourse-anaphoric pairing predicate: pair-list shì in Mandarin Chinese
This paper argues that the overt shì in Mandarin pair-list answers functions as a discourse-anaphoric pairing predicate rather than a standard copula, or a focus marker. The relevant mapping is not created by overt shì itself, but is established by the Question under Discussion (QUD) structure, introduced explicitly by...
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· Journal of East Asian lingui... · 0 citations
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Improving the semantic map of additivity: universal concessive conditionals and indefinite pronouns
Abstract In the present paper, I propose an improvement to the semantic map of additivity by Diana Forker. Additive markers are focus-sensitive operators that trigger the presupposition that the proposition in their scope is satisfied by at least one alternative to the focused element (e.g., English also, too). In many...
Tom Bossuyt
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Embedded reciprocal equatives in Mandarin and semantic weakening
In this paper I present a novel observation on reciprocal equatives (henceforth, RE) in Mandarin: a reciprocal equative, when embedded under a necessity modal or a predicate of desire, gives rise to an unexpected, at-least-equal-to interpretation (henceforth, ≥-interpretation). I show that the meaning of a modal...
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Lexical causatives and their mood choice: the curious case of recordar
This squib revisits the claim that causative predicates uniformly trigger subjunctive complements in Catalan (Rigau, 1981; Quer, 1998). While canonical causatives such as fer ‘make’ require subjunctive clauses, causative recordar ‘remind’ permits the indicative.We argue that mood selection is sensitive not simply to th...
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