Determiners and (Un)certainty

Jayez, Jacques; Tovena, Lucia M.

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“…It is well-known that FCIs are not redeemed by ignorance (epistemic indetermination), in contrast to determiners or pronouns sensitive to 'knowledge of the speaker' (Haspelmath 1997). 24 Although 24 See (Jayez & Tovena 2002) for an analysis of the difference between un quelconque and n'importe quel along these lines. the difference is empirically clear, it is theoretically unclear.…”

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“…First, it may rule out the possibility of subtrigging for n'importe quel, in contrast to any and tout, that do not share this value. Since 42 The reader is referred to (Reed 2000) for more details about the correspondence between any and French FCIs and NPIs, and to (Farkas 2002, Jayez & Tovena 2002, von Fintel 2000 for insights and proposals about the affective indiscriminative or equative values of various pronouns and determiners. Another path to explore is the possible relation between indiscriminative and equative values on one side and modal bases in the sense of Kratzer (1981) on the other.…”

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Free Choiceness and Non-Individuation

Jayez

Tovena

2005

Linguist Philos

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Fresh evidence from Free Choice Items (FCIs) in French question the current perception of the class. The role of some standard distinctions found in the literature is weakened or put in a new perspective. The distinction between universal and existential is no longer an intrinsic property of FCIs. Similarly, the opposition between variation-based vs intension-based analyses is relativized. We show that the regime of free choiceness can be characterized by an abstract constraint, that we call Non Individuation (NI), and which can be satisfied in different ways that match current distinctions. NI says that the information conveyed by a sentence containing a FCI should not be reducible to a referential situation, that is a situation in which particular individuals satisfy the sentence in the current world. The widely used resource of modal variation becomes a particular scenario of free-choiceness, not its 'essence'. In fact, we show that under certain conditions, FCIs can occur in episodic, non modal, sentences, a fact that NI can accommodate. We also discuss more fine-grained aspects of the semantics of FCIs, such as their emotional colour.

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Free Choiceness and Non-Individuation

Jayez

Tovena

2005

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“…ALONI, 2007;ALONSO-OVALLE;MENÉNDEZ-BENITO, 2010;DAYAL, 1998;HINTIKKA, 1986;JAYEZ;TOVENA, 2006;SHIMOYAMA, 2002;MENÉNDEZ-BENITO, 2010; entre outros) que os usos de algumas dessas expressões estão associados a diferentes efeitos de interpretação tais como ignorância, conhecimento e free choice (livre escolha), por exemplo.…”

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“…EBERT; HINTERWIMMER, no prelo; HINTERWIMMER; UMBACH, no prelo; EGUEREN; SÁNCHEZ, 2007;HINTIKKA, 1986;ENÇ, 1991;KRATZER, 1998;FARKAS, 2002a;JAYEZ;TOVENA, 2002;ZAMPARELLI, 2007; entre muitos outros).…”

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“…De modo especial, a partir da tipologia proposta por Haspelmath (1997), muitos estudiosos em semântica formal e em pragmática (cf. ABUSCH; ROOTH, 1997;ALONI, 2007; VAN ROOIJ, 2007; ALONSO-OVALLE; MENÉNDEZ-BENITO, 2010;BECKER, 1999;CHIERCHIA, 2006;CONDORAVDI, 2008;HINTERWIMMER, no prelo;FARKAS, 2006; HINTERWIMMER; UMBACH, no prelo; HASPELMATH, 1997;IONIN, 2008;JAYEZ;TOVENA, 2006;SHIMOYAMA, 2002;ZAMPARELLI, 2007; entre outros) têm se dedicado à descrição e à análise desses indefinidos. 1 Haspelmath (1997) faz uma longa descrição de diversas séries de pronomes em diferentes línguas mostrando que existe uma hierarquia no modo como os efeitos (de conhecimento ou de ignorância, por exemplo) associados a eles são construídos.…”

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A manifestação das noções de ignorância e de conhecimento no português brasileiro: o caso de algum e (um) certo

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Kinds of (Non)Specificity

Farkas

Brașoveanu

2019

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Semantics

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The chapter casts a look at the role specificity has played in DP semantics since the early 1970s. It puts forward the proposal that the common thread across specificity distinctions is the contrast between stability vs variability in value assignments for the variable introduced by the DP across various types of alternatives. Special determiners are used to mark either variation (nonspecificity) or stability (specificity).

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Determiners and (Un)certainty

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Free Choiceness and Non-Individuation

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A manifestação das noções de ignorância e de conhecimento no português brasileiro: o caso de algum e (um) certo

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