Same and different are additive presupposition triggers

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Linguistics and Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-06-22 DOI:10.1007/s10988-023-09403-3

Line Mikkelsen, Daniel Hardt

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Abstract

We propose an account of interpretive effects involving same and different, relying on two claims: the first is that same and different are able to take scope, and the second is that they are presuppositional. On this account, same and different are decomposed into two parts: an additive operator TOO and a (non-)identity predicate. We argue that this account provides a more parsimonious account of well-known properties of same and different, such as the distinction between internal and external readings, as well as the parallelism effects discovered by Hardt and Mikkelsen (Linguist Philos 38:289–314, 2015). We also present a solution to a previously unexplained puzzle involving comparatives.

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相同和不同是相加的预设触发器

我们对涉及相同和不同的解释效果提出了一种解释，这种解释依赖于两种主张：第一种主张是相同和不同是有范围的，第二种主张是它们是预设的。在这种解释中，相同和不同被分解成两个部分：一个加法运算符 TOO 和一个（非）同一谓词。我们认为，这一解释为 "同 "和 "异 "的众所周知的特性提供了更简洁的解释，例如内部和外部读法之间的区别，以及 Hardt 和 Mikkelsen 发现的平行效应（Linguist Philos 38:289-314, 2015）。我们还提出了一个以前无法解释的涉及比较级的难题的解决方案。

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