Indefinites in Comparatives

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 03 Sep 2011 Netherlands Publisher:Linguistic Society of AmericaJournal:Semantics and Linguistic Theory, volume 21, page 19 (eissn: 2163-5951,

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Authors: Aloni, M.; Roelofsen, F.;

doi: 10.3765/salt.v21i0.2602 , 10.1007/s11050-013-9103-z , 10.3765/salt.v0i0.2602

handle: 11245/1.354594 , 11245/1.402857

Indefinites in Comparatives

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The goal of this paper is to explain the meaning and distribution of indefinites in comparatives, focusing on the case of English 'some' and 'any' and German 'irgend'-indefinites. We combine three competing theories of comparatives with an alternative semantics of 'some' and 'any', and a novel account of stressed 'irgend'-indefinites. One of the resulting theories, based on Heim's (2006) analysis of comparatives, predicts all the relevant differences in quantificational force, and explains why free choice indefinites are licensed in comparatives.

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