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Qualquer e o conceito de livre-escolha Qualquer and the concept of free-choice

DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2005
Este artigo desenvolve a hipótese de Peres (cp) de que sintagmas 'qualquer' não são quantificados, mas indefinidos (Heim 1982). Argumenta-se que há um item 'qualquer' e que as diferenças entre as estruturas 'qualquer N' e 'um N qualquer' devem-se à ...
Roberta Pires de Oliveira
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Pseudo Incorporation and Anaphoricity: Evidence from Persian

Glossa, 2021
The paper investigates the discourse effects of bare nominal pseudo-incorporated objects in Persian. Contrary to claims that such nominals cannot be antecedents to anaphora, experimental results show that that their anaphoric potential is only somewhat ...
Fereshteh Modarresi, Manfred Krifka
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Logical Indefinites

Logique et Analyse, 2014
The best extant demarcation of logical constants, due to Tarski, classifies logical constants by invariance properties of their denotations. This classification is developed in a framework which presumes that the denotations of all expressions are definite.
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Information structure [PDF]

, 2009
The guidelines for Information Structure include instructions for the annotation of Information Status (or ‘givenness’), Topic, and Focus, building upon a basic syntactic annotation of nominal phrases and sentences.
Endriss, Cornelia, Fiedler, Ines, Götze, Michael, Hinterwimmer, Stefan, Petrova, Svetlana, Schwarz, Anne, Skopeteas, Stavros, Stoel, Ruben, Weskott, Thomas   +8 more
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Negation and indefinites in Late Latin

Pallas, 2016
In this paper I investigate the interplay between sentential negation and indefinites in some Late Latin texts (since the 3rd century AD), with the aim of tracing back to this stage later developments affecting the early Romance languages.
Chiara Gianollo
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Indefiniteness and Specificity in Old Italian Texts [PDF]

, 2001
Object of this study is the marking of nominal indefiniteness in Old Italian, more precisely Old Tuscan texts, in three collections of ...
Stark, Elisabeth
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Topicality and (Non-)Specificity in Mandarin [PDF]

, 2001
Current analyses of specificity are unable to provide an explanatory account for why specific and nonspecific uses of indefinites are available. While Abusch (1994), Reinhart (1997), and Kratzer (1998) provide successful mechanisms for deriving specific ...
Portner, Paul
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Imperfectivity and Habituality in Italian [PDF]

, 2012
International audienceThe chapter proposes a semantic analysis of Italian imperfective sentences which uniformly accounts for their habitual and progressive readings. Bare imperfectives with singular indefinites in object position are considered, and the
Del Prete, Fabio
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Covert exclamative indefinites in Rioplatense Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese

Isogloss
In this article, we focus on the analysis of what we will call covert exclamative indefinites in Rioplatense Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese, such as Hace un calor (‘It’s so hot’) and Tenho um medo (‘I am so scared’).
Luciana Sanchez Mendes, Ana Clara Polakof   +1 more
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Semantics with Dependent Types for Indefinites

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2016
The paper proposes a new semantics with dependent types for indefinites, encompassing both the data related to their exceptional scopal behavior and the data related to their anaphoric (dynamic) properties.
Grudzińska Justyna
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