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- Title
Dutch ENIG: from nonveridicality to downward entailment.
- Authors
Hoeksema, Jack
- Abstract
In combinations with singular count nouns, the Dutch indefinite determiner enig 'some/any' shows a diachronic distributional shift from nonveridical environments in general to a strict subset thereof, namely negative, conditional and interrogative contexts. Similarities with Greek indefinites of the kanenas-series are explored, and an argument is given that at some point enig has split into two uses, one of which is currently on its way out. Nonemphatic, nonreferring enig is disappearing, whereas emphatic enig is stable within a set of environments similar to those of English any or ever.
- Subjects
POLARITY (Linguistics); HISTORICAL linguistics; DEFINITENESS (Linguistics); PROSODIC analysis (Linguistics); SEMANTICS; CORPORA
- Publication
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2010, Vol 28, Issue 4, p837
- ISSN
0167-806X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11049-010-9110-4