Discourse Properties of Bare Noun Objects

Modarresi, Fereshteh

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“…(3). Modarresi (2015) points out that covert pronouns are special insofar as they, being covert, cannot express number. Hence they are suited to pick up number-neutral PINs as antecedents.…”

Section: Discourse Translucency: Farkas and De Swart (2003)mentioning

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“…Furhtermore, anaphoric reference is achieved via the established abstraction and summation rule. Following Modarresi (2015), this explains why number-neutral covert pronominals are particularly suited for anaphoric reference to PINs, and why, depending on world knowledge, overt singular and plural pronouns can be used as well, as in (8a), or (8b).…”

Section: Pins As Nominals Under Existential Closurementioning

confidence: 99%

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Number Neutrality and Anaphoric Update of Pseudo-Incorporated Nominals in Persian (and Weak Definites in English)

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Modarresi

2016

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Persian shows differential object marking. We argue that objects without the object marker rā are pseudo-incorporated in the verbal predicate; specifically, existential closure over the vP binds the event variable, and nominals in the vP are interpreted as dependent definites with respect to the event. This results in an apparent number neutrality and a maximality interpretation of pronouns typical of the E-type strategy. The semantic contribution of nominals is modeled in DRT. We also argue that weak definites in English are interpreted similar to pseudo-incorporated nominals in Persian, and offer an explanation why they are restricted to readings referring to institutionalized activities.

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Section: Discourse Translucency: Farkas and De Swart (2003)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Pins As Nominals Under Existential Closurementioning

confidence: 99%

Number Neutrality and Anaphoric Update of Pseudo-Incorporated Nominals in Persian (and Weak Definites in English)

Krifka

Modarresi

2016

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“…Therefore, they are compatible with bare NPs as their antecedents in the subsequent discourse. This reasoning is in tandem with Modarresi's (2015) Discourse Representation Theory (DRT) account of bare nominals in Persian in which she argues that overt pronouns cannot pick up pseudo incorporated nominal as antecedents.…”

Section: The Pseudo-incorporation Analysismentioning

confidence: 74%

A historical medical text in orthopedics Risâle-i Tıbb

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2019

RumeliDE Dil Ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi

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The purpose of this paper is to investigate existential constructions in Turkish. The focus will be on the semantic, discourse as well as structural properties of Noun Phrases (NPs henceforth) in these structures. It is well-attested that there are different types of NPs such as bare NPs, singular and plural indefinite NPs that can serve as pivots in existential constructions in the language. However, some of them exhibit certain characteristics that are rather different from those of their counterparts in other languages. Bare NPs, for instance, are obligatorily interpreted as number-neutral and do not introduce discourse referents. This is rather unexpected given the main function of existential constructions cross-linguistically. To account for this behavior of these nominals, I argue that a pseudo-incorporation analysis that was proposed in order to explain the characteristics of direct objects in such structures as verbal sentences, idioms and light verb sentences could be extended to bare NPs in existential constructions. Unlike the analysis in previous work, however, I argue that pseudo-incorporation applies to bare NPs only, excluding singular and plural indefinite NPs. In addition, the account proposed here displays certain differences from those analyses that treat existential bare NPs as non-phrasal. A close analysis shows that existential bare NPs in Turkish are in fact phrasal elements.

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Discourse Properties of Bare Noun Objects

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Number Neutrality and Anaphoric Update of Pseudo-Incorporated Nominals in Persian (and Weak Definites in English)

Number Neutrality and Anaphoric Update of Pseudo-Incorporated Nominals in Persian (and Weak Definites in English)

A historical medical text in orthopedics Risâle-i Tıbb

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