Specifics
- In all these examples there appears to be mismatch between the position at which an indefinite appears and its preferred interpretation. Following many of the more recent contributions to the literature, I will assume that this is the hallmark of specificity (e.g. Ahusch 1994, Reinhart 1997, Winter 1997, van Geenhoven 1998). Such mismatches are not the norm: indefinites are often interpreted in situ, and there is some reason for taking this to be the default option. The reason is that comparatively 'neutral', i.e. semantically attenuate, indefinites have a preference for in situ readings [...].
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| Author: | Bart Geurts |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-308169 |
| URL: | http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/fileadmin/material/ZASPiL_Volltexte/zp24/zaspil24-geurts.pdf |
| ISSN: | 1435-9588 |
| ISSN: | 0947-7055 |
| Parent Title (English): | Sentence type and specificity / Ed. by Klaus von Heusinger ; Kerstin Schwabe, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin, 2000; ZAS papers in linguistics Vol. 24 |
| Publisher: | Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2013/11/14 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2001 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2013/11/14 |
| GND Keyword: | Spezifität; Satztyp; Semantik |
| Volume: | 24 |
| Page Number: | 24 |
| First Page: | 191 |
| Last Page: | 214 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 38123374X |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Semantik / Semantics |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: Grammatikforschung / Grammar research | |
| Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | ZAS papers in linguistics : ZASPiL / ZASPiL 24 = Sentence Type and Specificity |
| : | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-306659 |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
