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Geurts, Bart

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Semantics (Sebagian Full Text) vol. 13 no. 1 (Jan. 1996), page 67-86.
Topik: decomposional analysis; lexical decomposition;
Fulltext: vol 13, no 1, p 67-86.pdf (1,018.85KB)

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Since Jacobs (1980) it has been generally assumed that German kein 'no' requires a decomposirional analysis. On this analysis, kein means 'not some', which in itself is plausible enough, but furthermore it is claimed that the negative element of kein may be construed as having scope over an expression that, in its turn, outscopes the quantifying element. I propose an alternative to this decompositional theory which explains the same range of data not in terms of scope, but in terms of the kind of objects involved in the interpretation of kein-NPs. Specifically, it is shown that the problematic facts may be accounted for on the assumption that such NPs may refer not only to concrete but also to abstract, or generic, individuals.

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