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Proceedings of the 13 th ESSLLI Student Session Groenendijk, J. (1999). The logic of interrogation, in T. Matthews and D. Strolovitch (eds), The Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory, CLC Publications, Ithaca, NY, pp. 109–126. Groenendijk, J. (2007). Inquisitive semantics: Two possibilities for disjunction. Groenendijk, J. and Stokhof, M. (1997). Questions, in J. van Benthem and A. T. Meulen (eds), Handbook of Logic and Language, Elsevier. Stalnaker, R. (1978). Assertion, Syntax and Semantics 9. Veltman, F. (1996). Defaults in update semantics, Journal of Philosophical Logic 25(3). 36
BARE PREDICATION AND KINDS ∗ Bert Le Bruyn Utrecht University Abstract. This paper treats the distinction between singular nominal predication with and without indefinite article in languages like Dutch. The former variant is referred to as nonbare predication, the latter as bare predication. I make the following claims: (i) temporal analyses of the distinction between bare and non-bare predication are on the wrong track, (ii) bare predication needn’t be analyzed as a lexical phenomenon, (iii) non-bare predication should be analyzed as kind-membership predication. 1 Introduction Proceedings of the 13 th ESSLLI Student Session In order to understand the role played by the indefinite article in predicate position it is instructive to look at instances of singular nominal predication in which the indefinite article does not appear. These instances are subsumed under the notion of bare predication (see (Kupferman, 1991), (Broekhuis, Keizer and Den Dikken, 2003), (de Swart, Winter and Zwarts, 2005), (de Swart, Winter and Zwarts, 2007), (Matushansky and Spector, 2005), (Déprez, 2005), (Munn and Schmitt, 2005), (Roy, 2006), (Beyssade and Dobrovie-Sorin, 2005)). In English bare predication is marginal but a language like Dutch seems to have a productive paradigm: (1) (a) Jan is slager. (litt. John is butcher) (b) Jan is moslim. (litt. John is muslim) (c) Jan is Belg. (litt. John is Belgian) (d) Jan is hertog. (litt. John is duke) Nouns that typically occur in bare predication are linked to professions (1a), religions (1b), nationalities (1c) and titles (1d). It is important to note that this is not an idiosyncracy of Dutch but a pervasive phenomenon in Romance and Germanic languages (examples taken from (de Swart et al., 2007)): (2) Es negrero. (Spanish, litt. Is trader in black slaves); João é médico. (Portuguese, litt. John is doctor); Gianni è dottore. (Italian, litt. John is doctor); Jean est médecin. (French, litt. John is doctor); Olivier var skuespiller. (Danish, litt. Oliver was actor); Herr Weber är katolik. (Swedish, litt. Mr Weber is catholic); Han er lærer. (Norwegian, litt. He is teacher); Er ist praktizierender Katholik. (German, litt. He is practicing catholic). ∗ This paper should be read as a working paper that presents thoughts and bits of analysis that are not finished yet. I’m very grateful to audiences at ConSOLE XVI, my UiL-OTS kermit-lecture and the LSB 2008 Linguists’ Day and to the reviewers of the ESSLLI student session for very useful comments and discussion. Special thanks also to Min Que, Gianluca Giorgolo, Dorota Klimek, Sander Lestrade, Joost Zwarts and Henriëtte de Swart. 37
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