Weak definites and reference to kinds  

Oleh:

Aguilar-Guevara, Ana ; Zwarts, Joost

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: Proceedings of the 20th Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, held at Vancouver, British Colombia, April 29 - May 1, 2010, page 179-196.
Topik: ENGLISH LANGUAGE - COMPOSITIONS; weak definites; reference to kinds; definite generics.
Fulltext: 179-196.pdf (154.71KB)

Isi artikel

Weak definite NPs do not presuppose the existence of uniquely identifiable entities. In addition, they display a range of other peculiar properties such as sloppy readings in VPs ellipsis, narrow scope interpretations, lexical restrictions and enriched meaning. In order to account for these, in this paper we analyze weak definites as expressions that refer to the same sort of kind individuals that definite generics refer to. We propose that the combination of weak definites with objectlevel predicates is made possible by a lexical rule that lifts object-level relations to ‘enriched’ kind-level relations.

Opini Anda

Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini!

Kembali