Disjunct size, positive polarity and the scope of disjunction in Russian

October 16, 2017

Abstract: In this talk I show that the positive-polarity status of the plain disjunction marker ili ‘or’ in Russian correlates with the phrasal vs. clausal nature of disjunction. In particular, I demonstrate that appealing to the availability of phrasal disjunction can shed some light on the hitherto unobserved obviations of anti-licensing effects characteristic of PPI-disjunction markers in a variety of languages (Szabolcsi 2002 et seq.).

This is a peer-reviewed talk, for the 33rd annual meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics, in Tel-Aviv.

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I’m Pavel Rudnev, and this is my personal website. I’m a research fellow and lecturer in linguistics at HSE University in Moscow. My main area of interest is syntax and its interfaces with sound and meaning. In particular, my current research revolves around the structure of nominal expressions, agreement, case and verbal morphosyntax in East Caucasian languages, and the syntax-to-phonology mapping in Russian Sign Language.

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