Bare Plurals, Indefinites, and Weak–Strong Distinction

Editor

Svetlana Vogeleer | Université Libre de Bruxelles

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As of Volume 9 (1994/95) John Benjamins Publishing Company is the official publisher of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics, the annual publication of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. Each volume is topical and includes selected papers from the international meetings organised by the LSB.

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 19] 2005. iv, 265 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/bjl.19

Table of Contents

Introduction Svetlana Vogeleer	v–viii
Part One — Bare Plurals and Indefinites
The Role of Semantic Type in Differential Object Marking Tonia Bleam	3–27
On Existential Bare Plural ‘Subjects’: They Don’t Exist! Dalina Kallulli	29–57
Dutch Bare Plurals, Faded Partitives and Subject–Object Asymmetry Albert Oosterhof	59–91
The Non-Uniformity of Quantificational Variability Effects: A Comparison of Singular Indefinites, Bare Plurals and Plural Definites Cornelia Endriss and Stefan Hinterwimmer	93–120
On the Acquisition of the Indefinite Article: A Cross-linguistic Study of French, Italian, Romanian and Spanish Child Speech Martine Coene	121–143
Part Two — Quantification and Weak–Strong Distinction
Proportion Quantifier Interpretations of Indefinites and Endocentric Relevance Relations Arthur Merin	147–186
How Many Are ‘Several’? Argumentation, Meaning and Layers Jacques Jayez	187–209
Contextual Restriction and Quantification in Basque Urtzi Etxeberria	211–245
The Acquisition of the Weak–Strong Distinction: The Case of the Dutch Quantifier Allemaal Bart Hollebrandse and Erik-Jan Smits	247–264

Subjects

Linguistics

Theoretical linguistics

Main BIC Subject

CF: Linguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General