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Nobody Doesn't Like Negative Concord. [PDF]

J Psycholinguist Res, 2021
Maldonado M, Culbertson J.
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Constraints on Quantificational Domains: Generic Plural des-Indefinites in French [PDF]

, 2007
Indefinite plural generic in French and quantification over groups.
Dobrovie-Sorin, Carmen, Mari, Alda
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Quantifying trends of indefiniteness strategies in bilectal speakers of Sicilian and Italian

Isogloss
In this contribution, we use quantitative methods to account for trends of indefiniteness strategies (e.g. Italian Bevo del vino ‘I drink some wine’) in bilectal speakers of central Sicilian and Italian.
Vincenzo Nicolò Di Caro, Giuseppe Samo
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Sentence mood constitution and indefinite noun phrases [PDF]

, 2013
Sentence mood in German is a complex category that is determined by various components of the grammatical system. In particular, verbal mood, the position of the finite verb and the wh-characteristics of the so called 'Vorfeld'-phrase are responsible for
Lohnstein, Horst
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Predicting Definite and Indefinite Referents During Discourse Comprehension: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials. [PDF]

Cogn Sci, 2022
Carter GA, Nieuwland MS.
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Cross-linguistic variation in the expression of ignorance

Isogloss
This article examines the properties of epistemic indefinites (EIs) when pluralized, focusing on the following puzzle: while ignorance is expressed by both singular and plural EIs in a number of languages, e.g.
Eric Mathieu, Simone Diana Zamarlik
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Information structure and the status of np in russian [PDF]

, 2013
In his 1995 monograph, Apresyan suggests that it would be extremely interesting to investigate the means of expressing the definiteness/indefiniteness opposition in languages that do not have articles.
Brun, Dina
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The silence of exclamation: exclamative constructions, singular indefinite predicates and silent nouns

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2008
The goal of this analysis is to compare constructions containing singular indefinite predicates (SIPs) of the type ‘Ion e un ţăran/Ion is a peasant’ with N of N constructions of the type ‘ţăranul de Ion’/peasant-the of Ion’ and explore the role that the ...
Mihaela Tănase-Dogaru
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On the nature and licensing conditions of n-phrases in Portuguese

DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2000
The present paper focuses on the syntactic and semantic nature of the expressions identified in the literature as n-words (preferably, n-phrases), and on their licensing conditions.
PERES João Andrade
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Sociolinguistics meets typology: Insight from vernacular speech to account for cross-linguistic patterns

Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads
This study explores how two English grammatical systems with alternative grammatical options expose typological tendencies. A study of negation, no vs. negative quantifiers (nothing) vs.
Sali Tagliamonte
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