@Article{	  amsili15.abralin,
  author	= {Amsili, Pascal and Ellsiepen, Emilia and Winterstein,
		  Gr{\'e}goire},
  title		= {Optionality in the use of {\em too}: The role of reduction
		  and similarity},
  journal	= {Revista da Abralin (Associa\c{c}{\~a}o Brasileira de
		  Lingu{\'\i}stica)},
  volume	= {15},
  number	= {1},
  pages		= {229--252},
  year		= 2016,
  url_prepublished={../Docs/papers/amsili15_abralin_pf.pdf},
  url		= {https://revista.abralin.org/index.php/abralin/article/view/1303},
  abstract	= {This paper deals with the property of obligatoriness that
		  is often described as characteristic of the class of
		  additive particles (e.g. the adverb too). In a nutshell,
		  these particles are said to be obligatory because omitting
		  them in a discourse creates either an infelicity or the
		  derivation of unwanted inferences.A common trend of
		  analysis treats this property as boolean. The general
		  consensus used to be that if an additive particle can be
		  used in adiscourse then it has to be used. However some
		  examples show that this property is probably best treated
		  as a gradient. In this work we investigate some of the
		  conditions that affect this obligatoriness. First, based on
		  a small experiment with corpora, we evaluate the frequency
		  of the obligatory vs .optional uses of too. Then, having
		  established that the optional cases are not the exception,
		  we present the results of an experiment that evaluates the
		  effect of ellipsis and anaphora on the obligatoriness of
		  additive particles.}
}

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