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2013 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
What Does It Mean for an Indefinite to Be Presuppositional?
verfasst von : Umut Özge
Erschienen in: Logic, Language, and Computation
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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The paper is concerned with the nature of the presuppositionality involved in “strong” (or presuppositional) indefinite noun phrases in general, and Turkish accusative marked indefinites in particular. It investigates the semantics of Turkish accusative indefinites with regard to the categories of existential import, contextual restrictedness (or D-linking) and semantic scope, within the DRT-based Binding Theory of presupposition justification. It argues that neither contextual restrictedness nor scope properties alone can account for the semantics of Turkish Acc-indefinites. It further argues that existential import, modeled as anaphoricity encoded in the semantics of Acc-indefinites, is fundamental to “strong” indefiniteness in Turkish and can be construed as the source of both contextual restrictedness and wide scope behavior.