#3757. Conditional analysis of clausal exceptives

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Abstract:
In this paper I argue that English exceptive constructions introduced by except can be derived from full clauses by ellipsis. I propose that except introduces quantification over possible situations and the clause following it provides the restriction for this quantification. I also show how this approach captures certain cases which traditional approaches to the semantics of exceptives do not, such as cases where an except-phrase contains a PP or multiple syntactic constituents. In addition, this is the first approach to the semantics of exceptives that correctly captures the contribution of modal phrases such as possibly inside except-phrases.
Keywords:
Clausal exceptives; Ellipsis in exceptives; Exceptive deletion; Semantics of exceptive constructions

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