Identity and Indeterminacy in -ever Free Relatives
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An -ever free relative (FR) is felicitous only when the speaker doesn't know, or doesn't care about, the identity of the entity denoted. (1) is felicitous if, for example, the speaker doesn’t know if Mary is cooking pea soup or spinach (although he may know it is green). That is, the basic level nominal (in the sense of Cruse 1977) must be undetermined. When an -ever FR contains a nominal head (2), it is the subordinate level nominal, e.g. spinach soup or pea soup, that is undetermined.
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