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Share Paper 3750

Discourse only
Michela Ippolito, Angelika Kiss, and Will Williams
222-231 (complete paper or proceedings contents)

Abstract

This paper examines the distribution and interpretation of discourse uses of only (i.e., discourse only). As von Fintel and Iatridou (2019) show, discourse only can appear in combination with declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamative prejacents. However, no approach to date has provided a unified analysis of discourse only in all these modes of combination. The analysis proposed here covers all types of clauses that occur with discourse only. Discourse only conventionally implicates a lack of agreement (Ippolito et al. 2021) between its two arguments, in addition to the exceptive meaning it shares with exclusive only. Only-type particles found in Italian, Russian, Hungarian, and Mandarin appear to behave similarly to their kin in English.

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Proceedings of the 41st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
edited by Nikolas Webster, Yağmur Kiper, Richard Wang, and Sichen Larry Lyu
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