”Strong” Indefiniteness and Topicality

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2013-01-01

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Özge, Umut

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The paper addresses the relation between “strong” or presuppositional readings of indefinite noun phrases and the notion of topicality in its sentential and discourse-level formulations. Previous discussions of the issue were generally based on the interpretative properties of indefinite noun phrases at positions associated with topicality (e.g. subject of an individual-level predicate, within the antecedent of a conditional). The paper aims to contribute to the debate with data from Turkish, which overtly marks “strong” indefiniteness at a position generally associated with focus rather than topic. It is argued on the basis of Turkish data that “strong” indefiniteness and topicality should be kept distinct

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/85647
https://semanticsarchive.net/sub2012/SuB2013.pdf

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Sinn und Bedeutung 17, (8 - 10 Eylül 2012)

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U. Özge, “”Strong” Indefiniteness and Topicality,” 2013, p. 399, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/85647.