Some difficulties deriving the positive polarity behaviour of plain disjunction in Russian: Remarks on Nicolae 2017

Rudnev, Pavel. 2017. “Some difficulties deriving the positive polarity behaviour of plain disjunction in Russian: Remarks on Nicolae 2017.” Unpublished manuscript. National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow)

Abstract

Nicolae (2017) develops an account of PPI-disjunctions whereby the unacceptability of plain disjunction in DE-environments results from an economy condition imposed on obligatory exhaustification. This remark shows this general mechanism to be insufficient to account for the behaviour of the Russian plain disjunction marker ili, whose scope properties are argued to correlate with the phrasal vs. clausal nature of the disjunction: phrasal disjunction yields narrow scope whilst clausal disjunction yields wide scope.

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