Inquisitive Logical Triviality and Grammar. Möller Kalpak, H. Master's thesis, University of Amsterdam, 2018. University of Amsterdam, MSc thesis![Inquisitive Logical Triviality and Grammar [pdf]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/pdf.svg "pdf")
Paper abstract bibtex In this thesis, I dene the notion of inquisitive logical triviality, and investigate its connection to grammaticality in natural language. Inquisitive logical triviality is a property characterizing sentences which are either contradictory, or tautologous and non-inquisitive, purely in virtue of their logical vocabulary, and the presuppositions that this vocabulary triggers. I propose that inquisitive logical triviality is a source of systematic unacceptability of sentences, to the e ect that sentences exhibiting this form of triviality are ungrammatical. I argue that this assumption allows us to explain various empirical puzzles involving indenite and interrogative pronouns. First, it is shown to allow an account of previously unnoticed patterns of (un)grammaticality of constructions in which the exclusive particle only or an it-cleft associates with an indenite pronoun or determiner phrase. Second, it is shown to allow a semantic account of the system of question formation in Yucatec Maya, a language with little-tono interrogative-specic morphosyntax. Third, it is shown to allow an account for the cross-linguistic ability of focus to disambiguate quexistentials; words that can function both as indenite and as interrogative pronouns.
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author = {M{\"o}ller Kalpak, Hana},
date-added = {2021-08-17 00:00:00 +0000},
date-modified = {2021-08-17 00:00:00 +0000},
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note = {University of Amsterdam, MSc thesis},
school = {University of Amsterdam},
title = {Inquisitive Logical Triviality and Grammar},
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year = {2018},
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