Browsing by Author "Charnavel, Isabelle"

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    • Anaphor Binding: What French Inanimate Anaphors Show 

      Charnavel, Isabelle Carole; Sportiche, Dominique (MIT Press - Journals, 2016)
      Owing to different ideas about what counts as an anaphor subject to Condition A, two influential but superficially incompatible versions of Condition A of binding theory have coexisted: Chomsky’s (1986) version, and versions ...

    • Antilogophoricity in Clitic Clusters 

      Charnavel, Isabelle Carole; Mateu, Victoria E. (2015)

    • The clitic binding restriction revisited: Evidence for antilogophoricity 

      Charnavel, Isabelle Carole; Mateu, Victoria (Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2015)
      In some Romance languages, including French and Spanish, there is an interesting asymmetry concerning the behavior of isolated clitics and clitic clusters with respect to coreference. In the French example Anne croit qu’on ...

    • English Reflexive Logophors 

      Charnavel, Isabelle Carole; Zlogar, Christina Diane (2015)

    • How French Sheds New Light on Scalar Particles 

      Charnavel, Isabelle Carole (2015)
      This paper examines the behavior of the French scalar focus-sensitive particles même, quand même, ne serait-ce que and seulement as compared to English even and only. I first show that French même displays a more restricted ...

    • Let You Be Bound to Me (and Me to You) 

      Charnavel, Isabelle Carole (2015)
      According to Kaplan’s (1977) Fixity Thesis, the semantic value of indexicals, i.e. first and second person pronouns, is fixed by the context of the actual speech act and cannot be manipulated by any logical operator: I ...

    • On scalar readings of French propre ‘own’ 

      Charnavel, Isabelle Carole (Springer Science + Business Media, 2015)
      The goal of this paper is to account for scalarity effects typically arising in the presence of French propre ‘own’. I argue for the presence of an implicit, focus-sensitive operator E akin to overt ‘even’, which has ...

    • Same, different and other as comparative adjectives – A uniform analysis based on French 

      Charnavel, Isabelle Carole (Elsevier BV, 2015)
      The goal of this article is to provide a uniform and non-specific analysis for all constructions involving terms expressing similarity and difference (sidi terms) such as same, different or other in French. Beyond theoretical ...