Against partitioned readings of reciprocals

Sivan Sabato; Yoad Winter

doi:10.1075/la.150.12sab

Against partitioned readings of reciprocals

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This paper examines interpretations of sentences with reciprocal expressions like each other or one another. We concentrate on cases where two or more separate groups can be discerned in the interpretation of the subject of predication. We study the availability of such partitioned interpretations with de.nite subjects and proper name conjunctions, and show new evidence that partitioning effects are independent of the semantics of the reciprocal expression, and are exclusively determined by the interpretation of the subject. We then propose that the effect is yet another result of the familiar dependency of descriptions on contextual quantifiers.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Linguistics Enterprise
Subtitle of host publication	From knowledge of language to knowledge in linguistics
Editors	Martin Everaert, Tom Lentz, Hannah De Mulder, Øystein Nilsen, Arjen Zondervan
Publisher	John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pages	283-290
ISBN (Electronic)	9789027288660
ISBN (Print)	9789027255334
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1075/la.150.12sab
State	Published - Jan 2010
Externally published	Yes

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Against partitioned readings of reciprocals. / Sabato, Sivan; Winter, Yoad.
The Linguistics Enterprise: From knowledge of language to knowledge in linguistics. ed. / Martin Everaert; Tom Lentz; Hannah De Mulder; Øystein Nilsen; Arjen Zondervan. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2010. p. 283-290.

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