@article{Romoli_1, title={Toward a Structural Account of Conservativity}, volume={14}, url={https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/478}, abstractNote={<p>In this paper I propose a structural account of conservativity, which derives it as a byproduct of the syntax-semantics interface. In this approach, the reason for the absence of non-conservative determiners from natural languages is that in entering chain relations in the syntax, they would either lead to trivial meanings (in a sense to be made precise) <em>or</em> to quantificational clauses truth-conditionally equivalent to ones created by regular conservative determiners. In the latter case, I will argue that they do in fact exist but they are undetectable. As for the former case, I will argue that they are excluded because they lead to triviality, either formulated in terms of a constraint against ‘pointless’ lexical items, or with a notion of logical triviality which leads to ungrammaticality (Gajewski, 2002). Finally, I will explore two possible principles that should be coupled with either of the two: (1) DPs always move (2) DPs should always be moveable and will give some arguments for adopting the first principle in (1).</p&gt;}, journal={Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung}, author={Romoli, Jacopo}, year={1}, month={1}, pages={373-387} }