Open AccessExpressing Indifference: Spanish Un NP Cualquiera
Author(s) -
Luís Alonso-Ovalle,
Paula MenéndezBenito
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
proceedings from semantics and linguistic theory
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2163-5951
pISSN - 2163-5943
DOI - 10.3765/salt.v0i0.2595
Subject(s) - humanities , component (thermodynamics) , philosophy , physics , thermodynamics
Across languages, we find indefinites that trigger modal inferences. Some of these indefinites, like Spanish "un NP cualquiera" or the Korean "-na" indeterminates (Choi 2007) convey indifference on the part of an agent. In this paper, we assess whether a number of proposals on the market can be extended to account for the indifference component of un NP cualquiera.
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