caa a22 4500 606154329 CHVBK 20210128100558.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10988-015-9166-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10988-015-9166-z Szabolcsi Anna Department of Linguistics, New York University, 10 Washington Place, Rm. 405, New York, USA aut What do quantifier particles do? [Elektronische Daten] [Anna Szabolcsi] In many languages, the same particles that form quantifier words also serve as connectives, additive and scalar particles, question markers, roots of existential verbs, and so on. Do these have a unified semantics, or do they merely bear a family resemblance? Are they aided by silent operators in their varied roles―if yes, what operators? I dub the particles "quantifier particles” and refer to them generically with capitalized versions of the Japanese morphemes. I argue that both MO and KA can be assigned a stable semantics across their various roles. The specific analysis I offer is motivated by the fact that MO and KA often combine with just one argument; I propose that this is their characteristic behavior. Their role is to impose semantic requirements that are satisfied when the immediately larger context is interpreted as the meet/join of their host's semantic contribution with something else. They do not perform meet/join themselves. The obligatory vs. optional appearance of the particles depends on whether the meet/join interpretations arise by default in the given constellation. I explicate the proposal using the toolkit of basic Inquisitive Semantics. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2015 Compositionality nationallicence Cross-linguistic semantics nationallicence Particles nationallicence Inquisitive Semantics nationallicence Conjunction nationallicence Disjunction nationallicence Quantifier nationallicence Linguistics and Philosophy Springer Netherlands 38/2(2015-04-01), 159-204 0165-0157 38:2<159 2015 38 10988 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-015-9166-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-015-9166-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Szabolcsi Anna Department of Linguistics, New York University, 10 Washington Place, Rm. 405, New York, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Linguistics and Philosophy Springer Netherlands 38/2(2015-04-01), 159-204 0165-0157 38:2<159 2015 38 10988