This paper presents an analysis of weak deinites (e.g. to answer the phone) as introduced by Carlson and Sussman (2005). The proposal is that these deinites refer to kinds, which are instantiated by ordinary individuals when they combine with object-level predicates. This combination is made possible by a lexical rule that lifts object-level predicates to kind-level predicates, and incorporates into their denotation a predicate that represents the stereotypical usages of the kinds. This analysis accounts for most of the peculiar properties of weak deinites.

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The text is a facsimile of the print edition. © Presses universitaires de Vincennes recherches linguistiques de vincennes 42-2013-p. 61-90

Después de una introducción sobre la distribución e interpretación de frases nominales en función de predicado copulativo, la autora presenta los resultados de su estudio de corpus. Una de las conclusiones fundamentales es que, si bien la presencia general de este tipo de indefinidos es reducida en el corpus del estudio, hay un incremento notable de la Edad Media al español clásico.

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