Indefinites as Fossils The Case of wh-based Free Choice

Open Access
Authors
Publication date 2022
Host editors
  • C. Gianollo
  • K. von Heusinger
  • M. Napoli
Book title Determiners and Quantifiers
Book subtitle Functions, Variation, and Change
ISBN
  • 9789004473317
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9789004473324
Series Syntax and Semantics
Event Quantifiers and Determiners workshop at ESSLLI 2017
Pages (from-to) 214-245
Number of pages 32
Publisher Leiden: Brill
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract
The article discusses theoretical repercussions of a number of diachronic corpus studies establishing the patters of development of marked indefinites across languages (Aguilar-Guevara et al. 2012). The focus is on the case of wh-based free choice (FC) indefinites. After summarising the key results of two studies on the historical development of Spanish cualquiera and Dutch wie dan ook, we present a semantic analysis of the diachronic phases of these two FC indefinites demonstrating how historical data provide additional support for the abstract operators posited by analyses in Alternative Semantics style (Kratzer and Shimoyama 2002, Aloni 2007, Menéndez-Benito 2010).
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004473324_008
Other links https://osf.io/z2j9e/ https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85133390983
Downloads
Aloni2021a (Submitted manuscript)
9789004473324-BP000007 (Final published version)
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