Numberless kinds: Evidence from Russian

Borik, Olga; Espinal, M. Teresa

doi:10.5565/rev/catjl.299

catjl

2020

DOI: 10.5565/rev/catjl.299

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Numberless kinds: Evidence from Russian

Olga Borik¹,

M. Teresa Espinal²

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“…As the set is non-empty, the existence claim holds for nominals derived by means of a choice function.10 Choice functions were first proposed to represent the semantics of indefinite NPs in languages with articles inReinhart (1997),Winter (1997) andKrazter (1998). See also proposals byYanovich 2005, Geist 2008, Šímik 2021 for indefinites in Slavic languages andBorik and Espinal (2020) for a choice-function analysis of definite kinds in Russian.11 See Serés (2020) for examples and details regarding these properties of bare NPs in Russian.…”

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Uniqueness in languages with and without articles: Catalan vs Russian

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The article compares the interpretation of singular topical nominals in Romance (Catalan) and Slavic (Russian), and its relation to the presence/absence of the article in the overt morphosyntax. The empirical study, presented in this paper, confirmed the theoretical prediction that in Catalan the presence of a definite article conveys uniqueness of the referent, while an indefinite article suggests nonuniqueness. In the absence of articles (in Russian), bare nominals are compatible with both a uniqueness and a non-uniqueness interpretation. The reading of a bare noun phrase is inferred pragmatically, depending on contextual factors and the background knowledge of the interlocutors.

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Uniqueness in languages with and without articles: Catalan vs Russian

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On the property-denoting clitic ne and the determiner de/di: a comparative analysis of Catalan and Italian

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The clitic pronoun ne and the functional element de introducing nominal constituents have many nominal and prepositional functions across Romance languages. In this article, we focus on the nominal functions, singling out three different bundles of semantic features that characterize both ne and de. They can denote properties of individual entities, properties of kinds, or predicate properties. The article shows that Catalan ne and de display the three types of denotation, while Italian ne and de only display the first one. This article further supports the hypothesis that the indefinite determiner de can be overt or silent, thereby unifying de-phrases (and the Italian partitive article) with bare nouns. The analysis of de as an indefinite determiner is then extended to adjectival de, which is claimed to mark concord features on adjectives in both Catalan and Italian.

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Numberless kinds: Evidence from Russian

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Uniqueness in languages with and without articles: Catalan vs Russian

Uniqueness in languages with and without articles: Catalan vs Russian

On the property-denoting clitic ne and the determiner de/di: a comparative analysis of Catalan and Italian

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