A new kind of epistemic indefinite

Authors

  • Virginia Dawson

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2018.v22.95

Abstract

Tiwa (Tibeto-Burman; India) has two series of epistemic indefinites: one whose epistemic effects arise via an anti-singleton constraint similar to Spanish alg´un (Alonso-Ovalle and Men´endez-Benito, 2010), and another, wide-scope indefinite whose epistemic effects must be derived differently. I propose that for these latter indefinites, ignorance arises not through domain constraints, but as a result of their choice functional nature through competition with other indefinites. Tiwa’s wide scope indefinites then constitute a new kind of epistemic indefinite, showing that ignorance implicatures for indefinites can arise through different sorts of competition.

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Published

2019-05-15

How to Cite

Dawson, V. (2019). A new kind of epistemic indefinite. Proceedings of Sinn Und Bedeutung, 22(1), 349–366. https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2018.v22.95