research

Any and eventualities

Abstract

The fact that any has both a Free Choice and a Polarity Sensitive profile has been the source of many controversies.In this paper, we have proposed that the different uses of any are manifestations of the general constraint NI. All the cases we have reviewed concern the wayin which any links individuation and eventualities. As noted in [11], the French item le moindre, whose scalar origin is clear, has a very similar distribution.Future work will have to say whether scalarity plays a central role for any, as advocated in [5], and, more generally, for items which have both a PS and a FCsensitivity

    Similar works