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Hanlon, Camille and Joann Silverberg. 1998. Semantic and pragmatic aspects of set-relational reference in modern Indo-European languages. Pragmatics 8 (4) : 543–554.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
lexical variability | quantifier | reference
Language as a subject
English | French | German | Greek, Ancient | Greek, Modern | Italian | Latin | Russian | Spanish
Place, Publisher
International Pragmatics Association
ISBN
1018-2101
Journal DOI
10.1075/prag

Annotation

This research shows that Indo-European languages are very consistent in terms of semantic contrasts, despite lexical variation. It is argued that a pragmatic principle underlies this phenomenon.