The Case of Bare Plurals and Plural Definites. - Institut für Linguistik ...
The Case of Bare Plurals and Plural Definites. - Institut für Linguistik ...
The Case of Bare Plurals and Plural Definites. - Institut für Linguistik ...
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QV with Indefinites<br />
(5) ?? A car that was bought in the 80s is usually blue.<br />
(6) A car that was bought in the 80s was usually blue.<br />
• Every quantification comes with a domain<br />
restriction (cf. von Fintel (1994), Stanley<br />
(2000), Marti (2003))<br />
• Domain restriction for events means to locate<br />
them in time (Lenci <strong>and</strong> Bertinetto (1999)).<br />
• <strong>The</strong> respective interval is determined by the<br />
pragmatic IRS (cf. Endriss <strong>and</strong> Hinterwimmer<br />
(to appear)).<br />
• Acceptability differences can be explained via<br />
(conflicting) tense information.<br />
Indefinites <strong>and</strong> Weak Quantifiers, Brussels 2005
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