COLLECTIVES AND INDEFINITES AGAIN.

Dependent Indefinites

The paper rst lays out a non-con gurational approach to scope ambiguities in which scope dependencies are treated as dependencies between evaluation indices of variables. The notions of dependent and domain variables are de ned naturally in this framework. These concepts are then used to account for the distribution and interpretation of determiner reduplication in Hungarian, a phenomenon that ...

Indefinites and Binding: From . . .

Specificity, Singleton Indefinites, and Intonation

for the workshop "Direct Reference and Specificity" at ESSLLI XV in Vienna, August, 18-22, 2003 1. Schwarzschild (2001) proposes a view of specific indefinites as "singleton indefinites". He starts from the assumptions (i) that indefinites express existential quantification, and (ii) that quantifiers have implicit domain restrictions. The idea is to attribute the exceptional scope behaviour of ...

Discourse dynamics, pragmatics, and indefinites

Everyone agrees that conversations take place in a context. This is not to merely point out that conversations occur at a time and a place, or that there are particular speakers and hearers, though this is all of course true. Conversations take place against a background of mutually recognized facts: facts about the beliefs and presumptions of the participants, facts about the information conve...

Weak Indefinites

0. Introduction. The idea that events should be countenanced as entities in a semantics, commonly attributed to Davidson (1967), has received a great deal of attention over the past couple of decades.1 Work tends to focus on the internal structure of these events (connecting it to work on aspect and aktionsart), on the one hand, and the usefulness of having them, rather than something like prop...