On identification and transworld identity in natural language: the case of -ever free relativesSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 34 - Trang 169-199 - 2011
Daphna Heller, Lynsey Wolter
An -ever free relative is felicitous only when the speaker doesn’t know, or doesn’t care about, the identity of the entity denoted. In this paper we investigate what it means to identify an entity by examining the non-identification condition on -ever free relatives. Following Dayal (In A. Lawson (Ed.), Proceedings of SALT VII, 1997), we analyze -ever free relatives as definites with a modal dimen...... hiện toàn bộ
Choice Functions and Scope of Existential Polarity Wh-Phrases in Mandarin ChineseSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 27 - Trang 451-491 - 2004
Jo-Wang Lin
A recent popular analysis of English indefinites isthat they involve a choice function mechanism in their semantic interpretation. However,there are diversified views regarding how intermediate scope readings should be dealt withand which level(s) existential closure should apply to. This paper attempts to make acontribution to this debate by examining existential polarity wh-phrases in Chinese. I...... hiện toàn bộ
Measure adverbialsSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 14 - Trang 629-660 - 1991
Friederike Moltmann
Review of Relativism and Monadic TruthSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 33 - Trang 37-50 - 2010
Alexander Almér, Dag Westerståhl
This is a review of Herman Cappelen and John Hawthorne’s book Relativism and Monadic Truth (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009).