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Bare Plurals in Spanish are Interpreted as Properties

Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2004
In this paper, I argue that bare plural noun phrases in Spanish unambiguously denote properties of individuals. I begin by using evidence from their incompatibility with kind-level predicates to show that Spanish bare plurals do not denote kinds.
Louise McNally
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On shared indefinite expressions in coordinative structures [PDF]

, 2013
The paper shows that shared indefinite expressions in coordinative constructions may differ with respect to their referential properties. This is due to their being either in a focused or in a nonfocused shared constituent.
Schwabe, Kerstin
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Specificity distinction [PDF]

, 2013
This paper is concerned with semantic noun phrase typology, focusing on the question of how to draw fine-grained distinctions necessary for an accurate account of natural language phenomena.
Farkas, Donka F.
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What Do Definites Do That Indefinites Definitely Don't? [PDF]

, 2000
This paper investigates how (in)definiteness in word order; more specifically, how it in the ordering of objects in the Mittelfeld of German double-object constructions.
Büring, Daniel
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Prenominal possessives with indefinites in Romance

Isogloss
This paper describes and compares the properties of prenominal possessives in indefinite DPs in three Romance varieties: Standard Italian (SI), Girona Catalan (GC), and a so-called “conservative dialect” of European Portuguese (CEP).
Luis Eguren, Francesc Roca
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About the whereabouts of indefinites [PDF]

, 2013
The paper characterizes three different domains in the German middle field which are relevant for the interpretation of an indefinite. It is argued that the so-called 'strong' reading of an indefinite is the basic one and that the 'weak' reading needs ...
Frey, Werner
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Bare indefinites and distributivity in Basque

Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2002
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Ricardo Etxepare
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ENGLISH INDEFINITE PRONOUN ANY AND ITS SERBIAN TRANSLATION EQUIVALENTS

Filolog, 2023
This study aims to analyse a contrastive relation between the English indefinite pronoun any and its Serbian equivalents. Beside the simple pronoun any, the study also focuses on how its compounds with other words – nouns (-body, -thing), numerals (-one)
Irena M. Pantić
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Specificity and definiteness in sentence and discourse structure [PDF]

, 2013
In this paper, I argue that this informally given list of characteristics covers only a certain subclass of specific indefinites. […] In particular, I dispute the definition of specific indefinites as "the speaker has the referent in mind" as rather ...
Heusinger, Klaus von
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(Negative) Polarity Items in Catalan and Other Trans-Pyrenean Romance Languages

Languages, 2022
This paper identifies the set of properties that polarity items (PI), negative polarity items (NPI) and negative concord items (NCI) satisfy in Catalan, Aragonese, Benasquese and Occitan. It shows that in Catalan, gaire ‘much, many’ is a PI, pas ‘at all’
M.Teresa Espinal, Ares Llop
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