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Scrambling and reference in german [PDF]
, 2013 Although the linear order of arguments (and adverbials) in German is relatively free, it underlies certain restrictions; these don’t apply to the so-called unmarked order for arguments (Lenerz 1977) and adverbials (Frey/Pittner 1998).
Lenerz, Jürgen
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Negative sensitive items and the discourse-configurational nature of Japanese
Glossa, 2016 We take up three Negative Sensitive Items (NSIs) in Japanese, Wh-MO plain negative indefinites, exceptive XP-sika, and certain minimizing indefinites, such as rokuna N (‘any decent N’).
Hedde Zeijlstra +2 more
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Information structure and the referential status of linguistic expression : workshop as part of the 23th annual meetings of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft in Leipzig, Leipzig, February 28 - March 2, 2001 [PDF]
, 2001 This volume comprises papers that were given at the workshop Information Structure and the Referential Status of Linguistic Expressions, which we organized during the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS) Conference in Leipzig in February ...
Heusinger, Klaus von, Schwabe, Kerstin
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Cadernos de Estudos Lingüísticos, 2011 In this paper we begin to analyze ocurrences of anaphoric indefinite expressions. In recent semantic and linguistic theory indefinites are not expected, only recently the phenomenon has been recognized by some theorists.
Maria Luiza Cunha Lima
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(De)accenting definite descriptions [PDF]
, 2013 This paper focuses on definite descriptions. It will be shown that a definite description refers to a given discourse referent if the descriptive content is completely deaccented.
Umbach, Carla
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Ampersand, 2019 This study aims to account for some dimensions of the strictness and of what will be called the ‘range’ of Negative Concord in Jamaican (also ‘Jamaican Creole’ or ‘Patwa’) and in so doing to increase our typological understanding of Negative Concord.
Johan van der Auwera +1 more
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, 2013 The paper shows that in various sluicing types, the wh-phrase in the sluicing sentence as well as its relatum in the antecedent clause must be F-marked, and it explains this observation with Schwarzschild's (1999) and Merchant's (1999) focus theory ...
Schwabe, Kerstin
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Presumptive mood, factivity and epistemic indefinites in Romanian
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2014 This paper investigates the properties of the Romanian presumptive mood and the role it plays in the distribution of the epistemic indefinite vreun. We focus on the morphologically complex future-based paradigm, which includes forms based on the literary
Anamaria Falaus
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, 2013 [W]e have demonstrated that the object specificity follows from the same principle as the subject specificity under the EMH. Furthermore, the semantic discrepancy between the realis and irrealis object shift constructions turns out to be a subcase of the
Tsai, Wei-Tien Dylan
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