On greek illusions: a semantic account of Alexopoulou’s generalization

  • Alexopoulou (2008) argues that Greek provides new evidence for the concept of binding illusions that was hypothesized by Fox and Sauerland (1996). Of special interest from my perspective is Alexopoulou’s argument that binding illusions arise not only with existential and universal quantifiers, but also with negative and interrogative quantifiers. The purpose of this note is to speculate on how to account for these kinds of binding illusions semantically building on Alexopoulou’s argument. In the following I refer to Alexopoulou’s (2008) paper as BIRG (Binding Illusions and Resumption in Greek) and to Clitic Left-Dislocation as CLLD. BIRG’s argument is based on the generalization concerning CLLD in Greek. Generally, a left-dislocated noun phrase cannot bind a pronoun in its clause in Greek.

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Author:Uli Sauerland
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1128038
URL:http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/mitarb/homepage/sauerland/greek.pdf
Document Type:Article
Language:German
Date of Publication (online):2009/05/05
Year of first Publication:2008
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2009/05/05
Tag:Griechisch
Page Number:8
Note:
Postprint ; (zuerst in:) S. Iatridou : Greek Syntax and Semantics : MIT Working Papers in Linguistics - Cambridge, 2008
Source:http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/mitarb/homepage/sauerland/greek.pdf ; (in:) S. Iatridou : Greek Syntax and Semantics : MIT Working Papers in Linguistics - Cambridge, 2008
HeBIS-PPN:216273226
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
Sammlungen:Linguistik
Linguistik-Klassifikation:Linguistik-Klassifikation: Semantik / Semantics
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht