On the sentence-internal reading of French le même (‘the same’)  

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Charnavel, Isabelle

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 216-232.
Topik: FRENCH LANGUAGE - GRAMMAR - TEXTBOOKS; same; definiteness; event; French
Fulltext: 216-232.pdf (164.01KB)

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This paper focuses on the sentence-internal reading of French le même and addresses two main issues: (i) the problem of definiteness (le même does not behave the way standard defi- nites do); (ii) the problem of compositionality (the plural licenser that le même needs to get interpreted is not adjacent to it). I propose that: (i) le même is a complex determiner with specific properties with respect to presupposition and specificity; (ii) le même is an existential quantifier over a plural event that is partitioned along participants or times. This licensing condition (plural event distributed through participants or times) relates même to the notion of pluractionality.

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