What it Takes to be Missing
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چکیده
At first glance, the predicate [be] missing appears to be an ordinary verb of absence 4 to be analyzed along the lines of Quine (1956) or more recent implementations and 5 alternatives.1 On closer inspection, though, this particular specimen turns out to give 6 rise to some surprising semantic complexity – which is what the present note is about. 7 As always with referentially opaque verbs, one may distinguish between specific 8 (or ‘objectual’) and unspecific (or ‘notional’) readings, the latter being typical of 9 indefinites whereas proper names tend to be restricted to the former. Thus, whereas 10 (1) does not seem to be ambiguous in the relevant sense, (2) may but need not be used 11 to report about a specific screw: 12
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