Ignorance and Indifference: Epistemic Indefinites in Slovak
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- dc.audience.educationlevel Estudis de postgrau (màsters oficials i doctorats)ca
- dc.contributor.author Richtarcikova, Veronikaca
- dc.date.accessioned 2013-11-11T16:59:08Z
- dc.date.available 2013-11-11T16:59:08Z
- dc.date.issued 2013-11-11
- dc.description.abstract This thesis investigates epistemic indefinites (EIs), elements noteworthy for their /ngrammaticalized ignorance implicature, i.e. inability to provide further information about /nthe identity of the expression's referent. This work contributes to the effort of finding /na unified account of the cross-linguistic repertoire of EIs. It comprises a corpus survey /nand a semantic analysis of Slovak voľa- and -si, EI items not studied until now. First, /nthe following hypothesis was tested: the semantic/syntactic functions expressed by an /nindefinite will fall into contiguous areas on an implicational map (Haspelmath 1997). /nThe results of the corpus analysis revealed that the map does not entirely capture the /nSlovak EIs' functional distribution and interpretations. Secondly, the semantic analysis /nwas developed within the alternatives-and-exhaustification framework (Chierchia 2013). /nI show that some of the EIs' behavior can be explained as a consequence of an assumed /nsensitivity to parameters proposed by Chierchia. I situate voľa- and -si with respect to the /nframework’s typology and offer a critical assessment of this theoretical perspective.ca
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- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/21260
- dc.language.iso engca
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- dc.subject Eslovac--Semànticaca
- dc.subject Corpus (Lingüística)ca
- dc.title Ignorance and Indifference: Epistemic Indefinites in Slovakca
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