Rhetorically-based scalar-additivity: the view from Italian addirittura

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• dc.contributor.author Pistoia-Reda, Salvatore
• dc.contributor.author McNally, Louise, 1965-
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-08-26T06:37:51Z
• dc.date.available 2024-08-26T06:37:51Z
• dc.date.issued 2022
• dc.description.abstract Even-like particles have widely been analyzed as inducing scalar and additive presuppositions (cf. Horn 1969; Karttunen & Peters 1979; Rooth 1992; Gast & van der Auwera 2011). However, the additivity of even has been controversial since at least Rullmann 1997 and increasingly called into question (see Greenberg & Umbach 2021 for references); Greenberg specifically argues that scalar even-like particles can vary in additivity. This claim is surprising in light of the typological study in Gast & van der Auwera 2011, which subsumes even and similar expressions under a larger class of additive particles. Against this background, we present an analysis of Italian addirittura, which with perfino has been described as scalaradditive (Visconti 2005) – but only optionally so – and is chosen preferentially over perfino precisely in those contexts that Greenberg takes to challenge the additivity of even. We argue, drawing on observations in Atayan 2017, that addirittura contrasts with perfino in deriving its scalar alternatives from rhetorical structure rather than focus structure. Once this is recognized we can view addirittura as additive, after all, in a rhetorical sense we describe below.
• dc.description.sponsorship This work was supported by AGAUR Beatriu de Pinós grant 2018BP00070 and grant PID2020-112602GB-I00/MICIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 financed by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación and Agencia Estatal de Investigación.
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• dc.identifier.citation Pistoia-Reda S, McNally L. Rhetorically-based scalar-additivity: the view from Italian addirittura. In: Starr JR, Kim J, Öney B, editors. Proceedings of the 32nd Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference (SALT); 2022 Jun 8-10; Mexico City. Mexico: Linguistic Society of America; 2022. p. 463-80. DOI: 10.3765/salt.v1i0.5397
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/salt.v1i0.5397
• dc.identifier.issn 2333-9683
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/60912
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Cornell University. Department of Linguistics
• dc.relation.ispartof Starr JR, Kim J, Öney B, editors. Proceedings of the 32nd Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference (SALT); 2022 Jun 8-10; Mexico City. Mexico: Linguistic Society of America; 2022. p. 463-80
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/PID2020-112602GB-I00
• dc.rights Articles appearing in SALT are published under an author agreement with the Linguistic Society of America and are made available to readers under a Creative Commons Attribution License.
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• dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
• dc.subject.keyword Even
• dc.subject.keyword Italian
• dc.subject.keyword Perfino
• dc.subject.keyword Addirittura
• dc.subject.keyword Rhetorical structure
• dc.subject.keyword Scalar-additive particles
• dc.title Rhetorically-based scalar-additivity: the view from Italian addirittura
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