Krifka & Modarresi: Incorporation and Weak Definites in Persian and German: Their Interpretation and Anaphoric Potential (pdf, video) Renans, Campbell & Korsah: Demonstratives in Ga (pdf, video) Sag-Parvardeh: Focus on demonstratives: experiments in English and Turkish (pdf, video) Meier: On Differences in Kind Readings (pdf, video) Driemel: Differential case marking in Korean: bare nouns vs. […]
“Definites, Demonstratives, Bare Nominals: What competes with What” (video) — Veneeta Dayal (Yale University) “A full DP analysis of the bare noun in Akan” (video) — Mareike Phillips (University of Potsdam) “Bare nouns in teleological situations: What licenses Article Drop in German” (video)— Giuliano Armenante (University of Potsdam) “Definite bare nouns in Ngamo (West Chadic)”
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“What do demonstratives tell us about strong definites?” Dorothy Ahn video presentation “Evidentiality in the German article system: Weak and strong article forms in bridging contexts” Klaus von Heusinger video presentation “Demonstratives and strong definites: two ways to point to a situation” Sasha Simonenko video presentation “Evaluative expressions influence prominence: discrete effects on two demonstrative
Invited talk: “What do demonstratives tell us about strong definites?” Dorothy Ahn video | handout
Florian Schwarz Schwarz 2022 Experimenting With Definiteness Contrasts Nadine Bade Bade 2022 The role of focus and alternatives in presuppositional competition Mira Grubic Grubic 2022 De finiteness in Ngamo (W-Chadic) Hasiyatu Abubakari Abubakari 2022 The Determiner ‘la’ in selected domains in Kusaal and sister Mabia languages Augustina Owusu Owusu 2022 On the strong-weak status of the
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My talk slides are available here. You can access both demo-versions and underlying source code for the two main experiments I reported at the links below. To access a copy of project on the PCIbex Farm (no account or sign-in needed), just click on ‘Click here to open a copy…’ in the bar at the
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In Ngamo, Hausa, Akan, Ga and several other languages (e.g., Serbo-Croatian, see Arsenijević 2018) a familiarity definite or demonstrative co-occurs with what is usually a marker of indefiniteness or specificity (see e.g. Duah, Grubic, Renans 2021). In our paper, we identify different readings that we found in different languages and suggest that the pattern we