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The Case of Bare Plurals and Plural Definites. - Institut für Linguistik ...

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<strong>The</strong> Use <strong>of</strong> <strong>Bare</strong> <strong><strong>Plural</strong>s</strong>: German<br />

• In German, a plural definite as well as a bare<br />

plural may be used to express the meaning <strong>of</strong><br />

(13) (see (15)), whereas the definite article is<br />

obligatory if the intervals are specific (see<br />

(16)):<br />

(15) (Die) Biologen, die Vorlesungen über Kängurus<br />

geben, sind meistens aufgeschlossen.<br />

(16) *(Die) Biologen, die auf der Konferenz im letzten<br />

Sommer einen Vortrag über Kängurus gehalten<br />

haben, waren meistens aufgeschlossen.<br />

Indefinites <strong>and</strong> Weak Quantifiers, Brussels 2005

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