Weak Referentiality

Editors

Ana Aguilar-Guevara

| Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Bert Le Bruyn

| Utrecht University

Joost Zwarts

| Utrecht University

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This volume brings together studies in the domain of weak referentiality, the phenomenon that a definite or indefinite noun phrase lacks its usual referential force. Several papers investigate syntactic or semantic properties of indefinite noun phrases, such as modality, number neutrality, narrow scope, incorporation, predication, and case marking, and that in a range of languages (Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, German, Papiamentu, Russian). Other papers deal with weakly referential definite noun phrases in various languages (Basque, Dutch, English, French) involving scrambling, modification, possession, and accessibility. The papers demonstrate a range of empirical methods and theoretical models. This volume will not only be of interest to researchers and students in syntax and semantics, but also in psycholinguistics and language typology.

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 219] 2014. xii, 390 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/la.219

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii–viii
List of abbreviations	ix–xii
Advances in weak referentiality Ana Aguilar-Guevara, Bert Le Bruyn and Joost Zwarts	1–16
Modal inferences in marked indefinites: the case of German irgend-indefinites Maria Aloni and Angelika Port	17–44
Epistemic and scopal properties of some indefinites Tania Ionin	45–72
Antonymic prepositions and weak referentiality Tibor Kiss and Claudia Roch	73–100
Weak referentiality and Russian instrumental nominals Lidia Bogatyreva and M. Teresa Espinal	101–128
Predicate nominals in Papiamentu: a comparison with Brazilian Portuguese and other languages Cristina Schmitt and Ellen-Petra Kester	129–156
Many a plural Eric Mathieu	157–182
Telic definites and their prepositions: French and Serbian Tijana Asic and Francis Corblin	183–212
How weak and how definite are Weak Definites? Florian Schwarz	213–235
Modified weak definites Ana Aguilar-Guevara and Maartje Schulpen	237–264
Functional frames in the interpretation of weak nominals Joost Zwarts	265–286
Unscrambling the lexical nature of weak definites Peter de Swart and Geertje van Bergen	287–310
Inalienable possession: the status of the definite article Bert Le Bruyn	311–334
Basque nominals: from a system with bare nouns to a system without Urtzi Etxeberria	335–364
Referential properties of definites and salience spreading Petra B. Schumacher and Hanna Weiland-Breckle	365–388
Index	389–390

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Subjects

Linguistics

Generative linguistics

Theoretical linguistics

Syntax

BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2014028102