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Dependent indefinites and their post-suppositions
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2014 This paper presents an analysis of a new scope puzzle that arises through the interaction of two lesser-studied constructions, dependent indefinites and verbal pluractionality.
Robert Henderson
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Negative Concord without Agree: Insights from German, Dutch and English Child Language
Languages, 2023 Children acquiring a non-negative concord language like English or German have been found to consistently interpret sentences with two negative elements in a negative concord manner as conveying a single semantic negation. Corpus-based investigations for
Imke Driemel +6 more
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Indefinites in Comparatives [PDF]
Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 2011 The goal of this paper is to explain the meaning and distribution of indefinites in comparatives, focusing on the case of English 'some' and 'any' and German 'irgend'-indefinites. We combine three competing theories of comparatives with an alternative semantics of 'some' and 'any', and a novel account of stressed 'irgend'-indefinites.
Aloni, M., Roelofsen, F.
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Brazilian Portuguese noun phrases: An optimality theoretic perspective
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2015 In this paper we examine the nominal system in Brazilian Portuguese (BrP), a challenge to cross-linguistic studies which rely on the generalization that a language that has indefinites should not have bare nouns.
Henriëtte de Swart +1 more
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Indefinite intertwining operators [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1984 For a wide class of linear connected semisimple Lie groups, one obtains formulas limiting the Langlands parameters of irreducible unitary representations obtained from maximal parabolic subgroups. The formulas relate unitarity to the number of roots satisfying certain conditions. Some evidence is presented that the formulas are sharp.
Baldoni-Silva, M. W., Knapp, A. W.
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Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2005 The aim of this paper is to give a syntactic analysis of sentential negation in the history of German with special emphasis on Old High German. This analysis attributes the main changes in the syntax of negation not to a change in syntactic structure ...
Jäger Agnes
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Wide scope indefinites in Russian: an experimental investigation
Glossa, 2019 This paper contributes to the cross-linguistic study of indefinites by reporting on two experimental studies on the scopal and functional properties of the two Russian indefinites koe- and -to. We show that koe- allows not only wide scope readings out of
Luisa Martí, Tania Ionin
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ANALYSE CONTRASTIVE DE L’INDÉFINITION EN GRAMMAIRE ET DANS LES USAGES JOURNALISTIQUES : ENTRE INDÉFINI ET INDÉFINISSANT [PDF]
Revue Hybrides, 2023 Indefinites in French do not always express indefiniteness as mentioned in some grammars. They can, in certain contexts, refer explicitly to clearly identified referents or speech acts.
Antoine-Beauvard ZANGA
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Definiteness and determinacy [PDF]
, 2015 This paper distinguishes between definiteness and determinacy. Definiteness is seen as a morphological category which, in English, marks a (weak) uniqueness presupposition, while determinacy consists in denoting an individual.
Beaver, David, Coppock, Elizabeth
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Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2015 The present article discusses the semantic and discourse-pragmatic properties of different competing types of indefinite noun phrases in Old High German, the earliest attested period of German. In particular, it investigates the behavior of indefinites
Petrova Svetlana
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