TY - JOUR AU - Koev, Todor PY - 2019/05/12 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - On Quotational Indefinites JF - Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung JA - SuB VL - 20 IS - 0 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/272 SP - 412-429 AB - <p>This paper discusses QUOTATIONAL INDEFINITES, an understudied variety  of indefinites that is attested in languages like Bulgarian  and German (see Cieschinger &amp; Ebert 2011 on the latter), and are akin to Japanese <em>wh</em>-doublets  (see Sudo 2008)  and English  placeholders  like <em>whatshisface </em>or <em>so-and-so </em>(cf. Clark &amp; Gerrig 1990). My major claim is that quotational indefinites existentially  quantify over linguistic  expressions and make reference to both expressions and their denotations. In addition, such indefinites require that the expressions they quantify over are of a certain type (a referential expression, a particular kind of adverbial, etc.) and originate in a previous conversation. This work uncovers important interactions between indefiniteness, quotation, and reportativity,  and broadens our understanding of the typology of indefinites.</p> ER -