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Title:
Core Concepts and Ind
irect Alternatives: On the Anti-Duality of Quantifiers
Author
s:
Paloma Jeretič\, Itai Bassi\, Aurore Gonzalez\, Marie-Chri
stine Meyer\, Kazuko Yatsushiro\, Uli Sauerland
Abstract:
Does language make use of unpronounced\, 'conceptual' alternativ
es? Buccola et al. 2018 argue that it does. One of the cases they cite to m
ake this point is the observation by Chemla [2007] that the French universa
l quantifier tous is anti-dual (i.e. odd when its domain consists of two in
dividuals)\, even though French has no word for ‘both’ to feed a Maximize P
resupposition competition. This suggests that a dual conceptual alternative
is at play. However\, a naive implementation of the idea overgenerates ant
i-duality inferences in other expressions\, such as each\, which and one in
English and French\, which might be expected to be observed due to anti-du
al counterparts in some languages like Icelandic and Japanese.
We prop
ose an analysis where French tous has an unpronounceable dual universal alt
ernative built from a dual core concept\, competition with which is license
d by the existence of a pronounceable expression equivalent in meaning\, wh
ich we call ‘Indirect Alternative’. This proposal accounts for tous’s anti-
duality and lack of anti-n-ality for n > 2\, as well as the lack of anti-du
ality in other quantifiers.