DP-internal only in English and Russian

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dc.contributor.advisorHuang, Shizhe
dc.contributor.authorFisher, Ian
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-02T19:01:11Z
dc.date.available2019-09-02T19:01:11Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThis paper presents an analysis of DP-internal only in English and Russian. I review the evidence in Coppock and Beaver (2012b, 2015) for definites containing only that do not presuppose uniqueness, and supplement it with data from Russian. Building on this empirical foundation, I propose that DP-internal only presupposes existence and asserts uniqueness, and the determiner the in the only constructions is semantically vacuous. As a consequence, DPs containing only, like indefinites, are never of type e. I also present evidence that the DP-internal and adverbial usages of only correspond to a single lexical item.
dc.description.sponsorshipTri-College (Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore Colleges). Department of Linguistics
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10066/21765
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rights.accessOpen Access
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subject.lcshEnglish language -- Adverbials
dc.subject.lcshRussian language -- Adverbials
dc.subject.lcshDefiniteness (Linguistics)
dc.subject.lcshEnglish language -- Grammar, Comparative -- Russian
dc.subject.lcshRussian language -- Grammar, Comparative -- English
dc.titleDP-internal only in English and Russian
dc.typeThesis
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