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Volume 18, Issue 2
  • ISSN 1606-822X
  • E-ISSN: 2309-5067

Abstract

Abstract

The main aim of this study is to reconsider Tomioka’s (2007) pragmatic account of the -intervention effects (IE), and to claim that Polarity Sensitive Items (s) are genuine syntactic interveners. I will examine the parallelism among s in IE configurations, which is distinct from other interveners, and further claim that the study of IE should not be monolithic, but hybrid: Syntactic -interveners (s), blocking scopal interactions/Pragmatic interveners, causing illegal information structures. The predictions will be borne out that s actually cause IE in other contexts as well, which pragmatic accounts cannot explain (Funakoshi & Takahashi 2014). Such hybrid perspectives bring back enormous findings on IE (e.g. wh-movement) to the field of syntax, without relegating all of them to pragmatics.

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