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Quantificational variability effects with plural definites : quantification over individuals or situations? [PDF]

, 2006
In this paper we compare the behaviour of adverbs of frequency (de Swart 1993) like usually with the behaviour of adverbs of quantity like for the most part in sentences that contain plural definites.
Endriss, Cornelia, Hinterwimmer, Stefan
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Expressing Negation [PDF]

, 1992
This research was supported by NSF Grant BNS ...
Ladusaw, William A.
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Expletives as features [PDF]

, 2000
Expletives have always been a central topic of theoretical debate and subject to different analyses within the different stages of the Principles and Parameter theory (see Chomsky 1981, 1986, 1995; Lasnik 1992, 1995; Frampton and Gutman 1997; among ...
Sabel, Joachim
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Indefinite Pronouns Optimize the Simplicity/Informativeness Trade-Off. [PDF]

Cogn Sci, 2022
Denić M, Steinert-Threlkeld S, Szymanik J.   +2 more
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Information structure and the referential status of bare plurals [PDF]

, 2013
The goal of this paper is to study the influence of information structure in the referential status of linguistic expressions such as bare plurals and indefinite NPs in Spanish.
Moreno, Norberto, Pérez, Isabel
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Vulnerability in processing definiteness: The case of heritage Turkish. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2023
Uygun S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Adjectival modification and multiple determiners [PDF]

, 2008
The present paper deals with the distribution of the definite determiner and certain related aspects of adjectival modification in Greek DPs. As (1) shows, determiners in Greek DPs precede adjectives and adjectives precede nouns.
Alexiadou, Artemis, Wilder, Chris
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Illusive wide scope of universal quantifiers [PDF]

, 2009
It is widely believed that existential quantifiers can bring about the semantic effects of a scope which is wider than their actual syntactic scope (See Fodor & Sag (1982), Cresti (1995), Kratzer (1995), Reinhart (1995) and Winter (1995), among many ...
Fox, Danny, Sauerland, Uli
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Quantifiers in Natural Language: Efficient Communication and Degrees of Semantic Universals. [PDF]

Entropy (Basel), 2021
Steinert-Threlkeld S.
europepmc   +1 more source

On Aristotle and Baldness: topic, reference, presupposition of existence, and negation [PDF]

, 2006
This paper is a contribution to the never settled debate on reference, negation and presupposition of existence in the linguistic/philosophical literature.
Brandtler, Johan
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