TY - JOUR AU - Jayez, Jacques AU - Tovena, Lucia PY - 2019/07/25 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Evidentiality and Determination JF - Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung JA - SuB VL - 12 IS - 0 SE - Articles DO - 10.18148/sub/2008.v12i0.590 UR - https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/590 SP - 271-286 AB - <p>This paper investigates the semantic properties of the French determiner&nbsp;<em>quelque</em>. It is shown that&nbsp;<em>quelque&nbsp;</em>conveys inferential&nbsp;<em>evidentiality,&nbsp;</em>that is, it selects interpretations in which the speaker infers the proposition conveyed by the sentence that hosts the determiner. This accounts for several other properties, for instance the fact that&nbsp;<em>quelque</em> is&nbsp;<em>anti-specific</em> and does not combine freely with negation. A notable consequence of the analysis is that the free choice and positive polarity behaviour of&nbsp;<em>quelque</em> are reduced to its basic semantics.&nbsp;</p> ER -