On the presupposition of clefts
This article presents a paradox regarding the presuppositional properties of the cleft sentences and proposes a solution for it. On the one hand, Figueiredo and Silva & Menuzzi (2014, 2015) demonstrate that clefts are favored by a presupposition of unicity when used as answers to WH question...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2018 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Letras e Lingüística (ANPOLL) |
| Repositorio: | Revista da ANPOLL (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revistadaanpoll.emnuvens.com.br:article/1067 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistadaanpoll.emnuvens.com.br/revista/article/view/1067 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Clefts Presupposition Exhaustivity Answers to WH questions Sentenças clivadas Pressuposição Estrutura informacional Interface pragmática/semântica |
| Sumario: | This article presents a paradox regarding the presuppositional properties of the cleft sentences and proposes a solution for it. On the one hand, Figueiredo and Silva & Menuzzi (2014, 2015) demonstrate that clefts are favored by a presupposition of unicity when used as answers to WH questions, which suggests that they are characterized by such a presupposition (cf. WEDGWOOD 2005, WEDGWOOD et al. 2006, MENUZZI 2012, BÜRING and KRIZ 2013). On the other hand, Moretto (2016) and Moretto & Menuzzi (2016) show that certain clefts are compatible with only and therefore with the assertion of exhaustivity; in this case, they are compatible only with a weaker presupposition, of existence (cf. HORN 1981, 1996). The explanation I propose for this paradox is this: an assertion of identity provides a complete answer only when there is a contextual presupposition of unicity – which is not inherent property of WH questions (contra POLLARD & YASAVUL, to appear). |
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