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标题：Dependent indefinites and their post-suppositions
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作者：Robert Henderson
期刊名称：Semantics and Pragmatics
电子版ISSN：1937-8912
出版年度：2014
卷号：7
期号：0
页码：6-1-58
语种：English
出版社：Linguistic Society of America
摘要：This paper presents an analysis of a new scope puzzle that arises through the interaction of two lesser-studied constructions, dependent indefinites and verbal pluractionality. The result is a novel account of dependent indefinites that correctly predicts their grammaticality with pluractionals by recognizing two ways of establishing the covariation they require: (i) true distributive quantifiers, and (ii) pluractional operators that structure thematic dependencies. The core insight is that both routes, while compositionally different, lead to similar output structures in Dynamic Plural Logic (DPlL) (van den Berg 1996) or its closely related alternatives (Brasoveanu 2008, Nouwen 2003), which is what dependent indefinites constrain. The analysis not only permits a better understanding of dependent indefinites in Kaqchikel, an endangered and understudied Mayan language of highland Guatemala, but it clarifies their place in a crosslinguistic typology of similar expressions (e.g., Balusu 2006, Choe 1987, Farkas 1997a, 2002, Yanovich 2005). Along the way we produce the first description and analysis of these phenomena in Kaqchikel. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/sp.7.6 BibTeX info
关键词：dependent indefinites; pluractionality; Dynamic Plural Logic; Mayan; Kaqchikel