The morphosemantics of Spanish indefinites

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  • Luisa Martí Queen Mary University of London

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v25i0.3050

Abstract

I analyze the Spanish indefinites algún and algunos as a paucal and a greater paucal determiner, respectively, contrary to the common assumption that views the former as singular and the latter as plural. I use Harbour's (2014) feature [±additive], and the possibility of repeating that feature, in order to do so. I propose a transparent word-internal compositional analysis of the two determiners, where alg- contributes [–additive] to both of them. I discuss consequences for the semantics of morphological plurality in nouns and for the analysis of ignorance implicatures.

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2016-03-08

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