Alternative Semantics for the Hebrew Determiner Eyze
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چکیده
In the recent linguistic literature, much attention has been devoted to the semantics and pragmatics of indefinite NPs. One of the issues that have been addressed is how different indefinite determiners in various languages contribute to the interpretation of the NP or of the whole sentence. The purpose of this talk is, hopefully, to make a further contribution to this investigation by examining the semantic properties of the Hebrew indefinite determiner eyze. This determiner can optionally appear in indefinite noun phrases, as is exemplified in (1):
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