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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Indefinites"”.
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Formal and philological inquiries into the nature of interrogatives, indefinites, disjunction, and focus in Sinhala and other languages
… class arguably including focus, interrogatives, indefinites, and disjunctions---and the connections between these elements. This study focusses on the analysis of such elements in Sinhala, with comparison to Malayalam, Tlingit, and Japanese. The central part of the study concerns the proper …
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The semantics of Russian indefinite pronouns : scope, domain widening, specificity, and proportionality and their interaction
… is to consider the different types of indefinites in Russian as a system and provide a semantic account for each of them that would be able to naturally explain their distribution. The four sets of so-called `indefinite pronouns' (-to, -nibud', -libo, and koe- indefinites) differ in …
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Descriptions as restricted free variables
… additionally provide an accompanying analysis of indefinites as restricted free object variables that may be bound by overt quantifiers or modals, or by a process of existential closure. In the first chapter, I provide some initial motivation for a referential view of definites and vii demonstrate …
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Decomposing questions
… We also observe that in both languages, indefinites can be formed by appending Q directly to a wh-word in a declarative sentence. Using this, we develop a compositional semantic account under which wh-words like who are represented as sets of individuals and Q is represented as an …
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Positive Polarity and Exhaustivity in Sinhala: A Study of its Implications for Grammar
… and interpretation of disjunctions and indefinites formed with the two particles in contexts of negation, modals, quantifiers and intensional operators, that none of the previous accounts has captured. It proposes to analyze the grammar of the two particles based on their positive …
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Topics in Turkish syntax : clausal structure and scope
… elements. One question addressed is why indefinites marked overtly for accusative case violate scope rigidity, and are interpreted as having wide scope over quantificational elements c-commanding them. It is argued that they do not violate scope rigidity, but rather the unexpected wide …
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Distributivity across domains : a study of the distributive numerals in Bangla
In this thesis, studying the numeral indefinites in Bangla, I argue that distributive numerals are not distributivity operators themselves. The distributive numerals introduce a plurality of discourse referents, and they require that this plurality of discourse referents must enter into a formal …
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Article semantics in second language acquisition
… come in two types: overuse of the with specific indefinites and overuse of a with non-specific definites. These predictions are examined in a series of studies with adult speakers of Russian and Korean, two languages with no
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Nominal licensing: the syntactic distribution and number interpretation of bare nominals in Wolof
… for them. They are, furthermore, narrow scope indefinites. These are properties usually attributed to Pseudo Noun Incorporation. However, there are two circum-stances under which the requirement to be adjacent to the verb can be obviated: when either a DP is introduced between the subject and …