Kinds of (Non)Specificity

Farkas, Donka F.; Brașoveanu, Adrian

doi:10.1002/9781118788516.sem037

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“…Цель настоящей статьи -представить более подробное семантическое описание пяти типов употреблений посессивов казымского диалекта севернохантыйского языка и соотнести их с недавними результатами из области полевой семантики детерминаторов [Schwarz 2019;Schwarz 2009;Arkoh, Matthewson 2013;Barlew 2014;Gillon 2009] и типологии и теории детерминации [Roberts 2003;Падучева 2017;Farkas 2002;Enç 1991;Farkas, Brasoveanu 2019] Родной язык 2, 2023 цатью консультантами. В настоящей работе я опираюсь исключительно на данные элицитации (о валидности такой методологии см.…”

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“…Я использую понятие «детерминация» вслед за Löbner 2011;Плунгян 2011], поскольку оно более прозрачно связано с понятием «детерминатор». 10 Вслед за [Farkas, Brasoveanu 2019], я использую зонтичный термин «специфичность» вместо традиционно принятого «референтность», поскольку последний слишком узок и охватывает только один вид специфичности. В частности, ниже фигурируют партитивно-специфичные (5) и эпистемически-неспецифичные (7) ИГ.…”

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“…Родной язык 2, 2023 разделе я сфокусируюсь именно на ней, а противопоставления, релевантные для зоны неопределенности, останутся по большей части за кадром (см. [Падучева 2017;Farkas, Brasoveanu 2019]).…”

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“…Партитивная специфичность имеет место, когда референт ИГ является ча-С. К. Михайлов Родной язык 2, 2023 стью известного в данном контексте референта [Enç 1991;Farkas 2002;Farkas, Brasoveanu 2019]. Так, например, в турецком партитивно-специфичные прямые дополнения маркируются винительным падежом (5), а опущение винительного падежа в этом примере вызывает импликацию, что эти две девочки не относятся к числу детей из предшествующего контекста.…”

Section: севернохантыйская посессивность и типология детерминации 17unclassified

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Northern Khanty possessives and determiner typology

Mikhailov

2023

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In many Uralic languages, possessive agreement markers form a special determiner system. Following several studies that argue that Uralic possessives have been grammaticalized as determiners, the present study (based on original field data) describes the semantics of four such determiners in the Kazym dialect of Northern Khanty and sets them against the background of recent investigations of typology and the theory of determiner semantics. Although these determiners involve well-known semantic features (familiarity, uniqueness, sa‑ lience, partitivity, intensional rigidity), some of the combinations of these features observed in Northern Khanty appear to be previously unattested among the world’s languages. For instance, I claim that in Northern Khanty, there are definite possessive markers, as well as a determiner that marks the most salient referent. In other cases, the Northern Khanty data confirm the findings of my predecessors, with the only difference being that in their data the relevant oppositions are found in expressions unrelated to possessives. Thus, this study contributes to determiner typology and to field-based semantic research in the languages of Russia, continuing the direction of Uralic studies started by [Nikolaeva 2003; Fraurud 2001; Kuznetsova 2003].

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Section: севернохантыйская посессивность и типология детерминации 17unclassified

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Northern Khanty possessives and determiner typology

Mikhailov

2023

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“… 9. Specificity is understood in several ways in the literature: as scopal specificity (Krifka, 1989, 1992); as partitivity (Enç, 1991; Farkas & Brasoveanu, 2021); as referential specificity (Reinhart, 1997; Steedman, 2003, 2006; Winter, 1997); and as epistemic specificity (Ihsane, 2021; von Heusinger, 2002). …”

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Bridging Inferences and Reference Management: Evidence from an Experimental Investigation in Catalan and Russian

2023

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This article focuses on the choice of nominal forms in a language with articles (Catalan) in comparison to a language without articles (Russian). An experimental study (consisting of various naturalness judgment tasks) was run with speakers of these two languages which allowed to show that in bridging contexts native speakers’ preferences vary when reference is made to one single individual or to two disjoint referents. In the former case, Catalan speakers chose (in)definite NPs depending on their accessibility to contextual information that guarantees a unique interpretation (or the lack of it) for the entity referred to. Russian speakers chose bare nominals as a default form. When reference is made to two disjoint referents (as encoded by the presence of an additional altre/drugoj “other” NP), speakers prefer an optimal combination of two indefinite NPs (i.e., un NP followed by un altre NP in Catalan; odin “some/a” NP followed by drugoj NP in Russian). This study shows how speakers of the two languages manage to combine grammatical knowledge (related to the meaning of the definite and the indefinite articles and altre in Catalan; and the meaning of bare nominals, odin and drugoj in Russian) with world knowledge activation and accessibility to discourse information.

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Specificity contrasts in Lalo Yi

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Simpson

2024

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Lalo Yi (Tibeto-Burman; China) makes systematic distinctions in the encoding of specificity with numerically-quantified nominals. Whereas specific indefinite NPs involve the presence of an article nikhe in an NP-internal position [Noun nikhe Numeral Classifier], non-specific existentially-asserted indefinites require the use of a syntactically discontinuous floating quantifier pattern [NP…Numeral-Classifier…]. A third, distinctive patterning is found with weak, non-specific indefinites (indefinites that are not existentially asserted). This paper describes these previously undocumented contrastive forms in Lalo Yi and how the language has developed a strikingly transparent linking between morpho-syntax and semantics/pragmatics in the domain of nominal phrases.

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Kinds of (Non)Specificity

Cited by 40 publications

References 28 publications

Northern Khanty possessives and determiner typology

Northern Khanty possessives and determiner typology

Bridging Inferences and Reference Management: Evidence from an Experimental Investigation in Catalan and Russian

Specificity contrasts in Lalo Yi

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