Squib: A note on the analysis of too as a discourse marker

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  • Guillaume Thomas Institut Jean Nicod

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2013.v9n1a4562

Resumo

Heim (1990) and Kripke (2009) argue that the adverb too is a trigger of presuppositions that cannot be accommodated, i.e. a hard trigger (Abusch 2002). Contrary to this view Zeevat (2003,b) proposed that too should rather be analyzed as a marker of additive discourse relations, which he argues explains its resistance to accommodation. In this squib, I show that presuppositional analyses of too are actually as explanatory as the discourse marker analysis in this respect, and that the latter faces serious issues with sentences with contrastive topics. I conclude that nothing is gained by reanalyzing hard presupposition triggers as discourse markers.
Keywords: presuppositions, discourse markers, too

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2015-06-01