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Volume 219
Weak Referentiality
Edited by Ana Aguilar-Guevara, Bert Le Bruyn and Joost Zwarts
Weak Referentiality
Edited by
Ana Aguilar-Guevara
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Bert Le Bruyn
Joost Zwarts
Utrecht University
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Role and reference grammar. 2. Reference (Linguistics) 3. Grammar, Comparative
and general--Noun phrase. 4. Phraseology. 5. Functionalism (Linguistics) I.
Aguilar-Guevara, Ana. II. Bruyn, Bert Le. III. Zwarts, Joost.
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Table of content
List of contributors vii
List of abbreviations ix
Advances in weak referentiality 1
Ana Aguilar-Guevara, Bert Le Bruyn & Joost Zwarts
Modal inferences in marked indefinites: The case of German irgend-indefinites 17
Maria Aloni & Angelika Port
Epistemic and scopal properties of some indefinites 45
Tania Ionin
Antonymic prepositions and weak referentiality 73
Tibor Kiss & Claudia Roch
Weak referentiality and Russian instrumental nominals 101
Lidia Bogatyreva & M. Teresa Espinal
Predicate nominals in Papiamentu: A comparison with Brazilian Portuguese
and other languages 129
Cristina Schmitt & Ellen-Petra Kester
Many a plural 157
Eric Mathieu
Telic definites and their prepositions: French and Serbian 183
Tijana Ašić & Francis Corblin
How weak and how definite are Weak Definites? 213
Florian Schwarz
Modified weak definites 237
Ana Aguilar-Guevara & Maartje Schulpen
Functional frames in the interpretation of weak nominals 265
Joost Zwarts
Unscrambling the lexical nature of weak definiteness 287
Peter de Swart & Geertje van Bergen
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Inalienable possession: The semantics of the definite article 311
Bert Le Bruyn
Basque nominals: From a system with bare nouns to a system without 335
Urtzi Etxeberria
Referential properties of definites and salience spreading 365
Petra B. Schumacher & Hanna Weiland
Index 389
List of contributors
Ana Aguilar-Guevara Bert Le Bruyn
Colegio de Letras Hispánicas, Department of Language, Literature and
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Communication, Utrecht University
Universidad Nacional Autónoma Trans 10
de México 3512 JK Utrecht
Ciudad Universitaria, [email protected]
s/n. C.P. 04510. México, DF.
Francis Corblin
[email protected]
Université Paris-Sorbonne & IUF
Maria Aloni 108 Bd Malesherbes
ILLC, University of Amsterdam 75850 Paris cedex 17
Science Park 904 [email protected]
1098 XH Amsterdam
Maria Teresa Espinal
[email protected]
Dept. Filologia Catalana
Tijana Ašić Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,
University of Kragujevac Campus de Bellaterra
Nehrova 107 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona)
11070 Novi Beograd [email protected]
[email protected]
Urtzi Etxeberria
Geertje van Bergen IKER UMR 5478-CNRS
Department of Business Communication Gaztellu Berria, Paul Bert Plaza 15
Radboud University Nijmegen 64100 Baiona, Pays Basque
PO Box 9103 [email protected]
6500 HD Nijmegen
Tania Ionin
[email protected]
University of Illinois at Urbana-
Lidia Bogatyreva Champaign
Dept. Filologia Catalana FLB 4080, MC-168
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 707 S. Mathews Ave.
Campus de Bellaterra Urbana, IL 61801
08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) [email protected]
[email protected]
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Ellen-Petra Kester Maartje Schulpen
Department of Language, Literature and Utrecht Institute of Linguistics,
Communication, Utrecht University
Utrecht University Trans 10
Trans 10 3512 JK Utrecht
3512 JK Utrecht [email protected]
[email protected]
Petra Schumacher
Tibor Kiss University of Cologne
Sprachwissenschaftliches Institut, Institut für deutsche Sprache und
Ruhr-Universität Bochum Literatur I
Universitätsstraße 150 Albertus-Magnus-Platz
D-44780 Bochum 50923 Köln
[email protected] [email protected]
Eric Mathieu Florian Schwarz
Department of Linguistics, Department of Linguistics,
University of Ottowa University of Pennsylvania
Arts Hall 619 Williams Hall
70 Laurier Avenue East Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305
Ottawa K1N 6NS [email protected]
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Peter de Swart
Angelika Port Department of Linguistics, Radboud
ILLC, University of Amsterdam University Nijmegen
PO Box 94242 PO Box 9103
1090 GE Amsterdam 6500 HD Nijmegen
[email protected] [email protected]
Claudia Roch Hanna Weiland
Sprachwissenschaftliches Institut, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Ruhr-Universität Bochum General Linguistics
Universitätsstraße 150 Kantstr. 2
D-44780 Bochum 55122 Mainz
[email protected] [email protected]
Cristina Schmitt Joost Zwarts
Michigan State University Department of Language, Literature and
B 405 Wells Hall Communication, Utrecht University
619 Red Cedar Road Trans 10
East Lansing, MI 48824 3512 JK Utrecht
[email protected] [email protected]
List of abbreviations
1pl/3pl first person plural, third person plural
1sg/3sg first person singular, third person singular
AA anti-additive function
abs absolutive
ACC/acc accusative
adj adjective
Ag Agent
AJT Acceptability Judgment Task
all allative
AM anti-morphic function
ANOVA Analysis Of Variance
AP Adjective Phrase
asp aspect
ASR acceptance of sloppy reading
aux auxiliary
aux.pl plural auxiliary
aux.sg singular auxiliary
BrP Brazilian Portuguese
CA conditional antecedent function
CC-shift conceptual cover shift
Cl/cl classifier
ClP Classifier Phrase
CO comparative function
COL collective
COLLQU colloquial expression
COP copulative particle
D Determiner
D.pl plural definite determiner
D.sg singular definite determiner
DEF definite article
Def definiteness feature
deoFC deontic Free Choice
DKP Derived Kind Predication
DN direct negation function
x Weak Referentiality
DP Determiner Phrase
DRS discourse representation structure
DRT Discourse Representation Theory
DW domain widening
EA ethnic adjective
epiU epistemic Unknown
EPP Extended Projection Principle
erg ergative
ERP event-related brain potential
FC free choice function
FEM/fem feminine/feminine gender marking
fut future tense
GEN generic function/genitive
GLM Generalized Linear Modelling
GLMM G eneralized Linear Mixed Modelling/Generalized
Linear Mixed Models
IA intersective adjective
IN indirect negation function
in inessive
INDC indiscriminative function
INDEF indefinite article
indef.det.pl indefinite plural determiner
instr instrumental
IR irrealis function
IRGEND irgend-indefinites
IRS Intermediate Scope Reading
KLR kind lifting rule
LAN left anterior negativity
MAS masculine
MASC masculine gender marking
n head of nominal projection
N noun
nc nominal chunk
NOM nominative
noun_sem noun semantics
nP nominal projection
NP Noun Phrase
NPu Negative Polarity use
NSR Narrow Scope Reading
