TY  - CHAP
A1  - Stephenson, Tamina
T1  - Quantificational readings of indefinites with focused creation verbs
T2  - Proceedings of the Sinn und Bedeutung 10 : 10th annual meeting of the Gesellschaft für Semantik, October 13 - 15, 2005, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin; ZASPil Vol. 44
N2  - This paper looks at sentences with "quantificational indefinites," discussed by Diesing (1992) and others. I propose that these sentences generate sets of alternatives of the form {p, not p and it's possible that p}, which restrict the quantification by an extension of familiar focus principles. For example, in the sentence "I usually read a book about slugs" (on the relevant reading), "usually" quantifies over pairs <x,t> such that x is a book about slugs, t is a time interval, and one alternative is true from the set {I read x at t, I can but do not read x at t}. In addition to accounting for a well-known contrast between creation and non-creation verbs, this also explains a second contrast that Diesing’s analysis cannot account for.
KW  - Indefinitpronomen
KW  - Formale Semantik
KW  - Quantor
KW  - Skopus
KW  - Thema-Rhema-Gliederung
Y1  - 2006
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/30984
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-309840
UR  - http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/188.html
SN  - 1435-9588
SN  - 0947-7055
VL  - 44
SP  - 347
EP  - 360
PB  - Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung
CY  - Berlin
ER  -