Eintrag

Titel

Indefinites in comparatives

Personen

Maria Aloni, Floris Roelofsen

Jahr

2014

Typ

Aufsatz

Periodikum

Natural language semantics

ISSN

0925-854X

Seiten

145 - 167

Band

22

Heft

2

Sprache(n)

Deutsch
Englisch

Schlagwörter

Indefinit
Komparation
Kontrastiv

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to explain the meaning and distribution of indefinites in comparatives, focusing on English some and any and German irgend-indefinites. We consider three competing theories of comparatives in combination with an alternative semantics of some and any, and a novel account of stressed irgend-indefinites. One of the resulting accounts, based on Heim's analysis of comparatives, predicts all the relevant differences in quantificational force, and explains why free choice indefinites are licensed in comparatives.

https://grammis.ids-mannheim.de/bdg/83370