Choice-functional Series of Indefinite Pronouns and Hamblin Semantics
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Choice-functional Series of Indefinites and Hamblin Semantics
Haspelmath 1997 poses a challenge for current theories of indefinites. Extensive data from 40 languages show there are too many differences between indefinite pronoun series to account for with the usual machinery for indefinites. For instance, we can take Russian as an example: below are 4 main Russian indefinite pronoun series. There are at least 4 other series unlisted in (1), and Bylinina &...
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عنوان ژورنال: Semantics and Linguistic Theory
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2163-5951
DOI: 10.3765/salt.v0i0.2921