Endriss, Cornelia and Hinterwimmer, Stefan (2008) Direct and indirect aboutness topics. Acta Linguistica Hungarica, 55 (3-4). pp. 297-307. ISSN 1216-8076
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Abstract
We propose a definition of aboutness topicality that not only encompasses individual denoting DPs, but also indefinites. We concentrate on the interpretative effects of marking indefinites as topics: they either receive widest scope in their clause, or they are interpreted in the restrictor of an overt or covert Q-adverb. We show that in the first case they are direct aboutness topics insofar as they are the subject of a predication expressed by the comment, while in the second case they are indirect aboutness topics: they define the subject of a higher-order predication — namely the set of situations that the respective Q-adverb quantifies over.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > P0 Philology. Linguistics / filológia, nyelvészet |
| Depositing User: | xFruzsina xPataki |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Jun 2017 08:31 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Apr 2023 12:55 |
| URI: | http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/55108 |
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