TY - JOUR AU - Wolter, Lynsey PY - 2019/08/15 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Situation variables and licensing by modification in opaque demonstratives JF - Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung JA - SuB VL - 11 IS - 0 SE - Articles DO - 10.18148/sub/2007.v11i0.668 UR - https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/668 SP - 612-626 AB - <p>Postnominal modifiers license unexpected opaque readings of demonstrative descriptions. This paper presents a unified analysis of ordinary demonstrative descriptions and the special construction consisting of an opaque demonstrative description with a postnominal modifier. The analysis is based on two independently necessary components: a modal constraint associated with demonstrative determiners and the modal independence of postnominal modifiers. Far from being a peripheral construction, opaque demonstratives ultimately allow us to probe the interaction of nominal constituents with modality.</p> ER -