Open AccessExclusive Free Choice in Turkish
Author(s) -
İsa Kerem Bayırlı
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
proceedings of the workshop on turkic and languages in contact with turkic
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2641-3485
DOI - 10.3765/ptu.v6i1.5050
Subject(s) - inference , covert , turkish , interpretation (philosophy) , reading (process) , parsing , mathematical economics , linguistics , computer science , econometrics , mathematics , artificial intelligence , philosophy
In this paper, we will be concerned with a type of interpretation associated with ya…ya… disjunction in Turkish where the Free-Choice inference is obligatorily accompanied with the Prohibition inference. We claim that such a reading arises as a consequence of the fact that each disjunct inside ya…ya… disjunction is parsed with only (overt or covert). We show that the scalar nature of only, which we model as a restriction on alternatives, is crucial in accounting for the exclusive Free-Choice readings. We finally discuss some differences between only and the Exh operator