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Specificity Markers and Nominal Exclamatives in French,articular package!). It is claimed that the unacceptability of . in these exclamative nominal sentences comes from the impossibility to use this NP as a predicate nominal, while the one generated by . in .s is the result of a clash between two incompatible information structures.

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Exceptional Scope: The Case of Spanish,s. The results yield a modulation of the predicted pattern: (1) In relative clauses, . can have exceptional scope, but exceptional scope is also available for . to some extent; (2) in conditionals, exceptional scope is impossible for . and hard for .. This difference between the two types of islands

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Scenarios of Equivalence: The Case of ,,the conventionalised effect of a processing interaction between its existential quantifier status and the epistemic implicature it conveys. By taking into account the pressure of processing mechanisms on the stabilisation of use, we are able to explain the otherwise puzzling fact that several episte

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Specificity Markers and Nominal Exclamatives in French, that . (i) does not tolerate singleton domains, (ii) presents as non accidental the fact that it is the referent, and (presumably) not the alternative elements of the domain, which satisfies the verbal predicate and (iii) tends to be focused and to background the rest of the sentence. On these thre

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Pragmatic Variation Among Specificity Markers,ing of indefinite-this NPs. In: Joshi A, Webber B, Sag I (eds) Elements of discourse understanding, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp 231–250, 1981) and reduced . “one” in Russian. It is shown that while the two markers have many properties in common, they are subject to subtly different pra

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Certain Presuppositions and Some Intermediate Readings, and Vice Versa,at certain readings of sentences with indefinites in the CF framework require existential closure of CF variables in the immediate scope of negation rather than Kratzer-style Skolemization of the CF. However, Schwarz (2001) noticed that while . indefinites exhibit readings of that kind, . indefinite

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The Distribution of two Indefinite Articles: The Case of Uzbek,sions . and .. From a synchronic perspective, the two indefinite articles can be shown to compete (at least in certain environments), and from a diachronic perspective, there is evidence that . significantly expands to the expense of .. The in-depth investigation of corpus data and data from an onli