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• Determiner
  ...article ''a(n)'' and numerals like ''two'', ''many'', etc. are examples of indefinite determiners. Recently, determiners have been analyzed as functional heads D
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• Existential interpretation
  ...of an indefinite noun phrase as an [[existential quantifier]]. In (i) the indefinite noun phrase has an existential interpretation because its logical paraphras
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• Specific reading
  ...ecificity-contrast is often analyzed in terms of the relative scope of the indefinite with respect to an [[opaque context]]. The specific reading, then, correspo
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• Negative concord
  '''Negative concord''' is a widespread term for cases where [[negative]] [[indefinite pronoun]]s cooccur with a separate expression of [[sentential negation]]. *[[Martin Haspelmath|Haspelmath, Martin]]. 2005. "Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation." In: Martin Haspelmath & Matthew S. Dryer
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• Existential quantifier
  The existential quantifier can be used to represent the meaning of indefinite noun phrases:
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• Propositional attitude
  ...fear'', etc. Propositional attitude [[verb]]s create [[opaque context]]s. Indefinite [[noun phrase]]s in such a context are ambiguous between a ''de re'' and ''
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• Introversion
  *[[indefinite object deletion]]
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• Mass noun
  ...nouns cannot be pluralized (cf. ''*milks'') and cannot be used with the [[indefinite article]] (cf. ''*a milk'') or with [[numeral]]s (cf. ''*one milk'').
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• Bounded/unbounded
  It fixes the number of syllables of a [[foot]] as either two (bounded) or indefinite (unbounded or n-ary).
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• Donkey anaphora
  This approach, which requires a non-quantificational interpretation of indefinite NPs that function as donkey antecedents, has been implemented in Discourse * Heim, I. 1982. ''The semantics of definite and indefinite noun phrases,'' diss. U. Mass., Amherst.
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• Eselssatz
  ...r Logiker so benannter Typ von Konditionalsätzen, in welchen im Vordersatz indefinite Nominalphrasen stehen, die im Nachsatz anaphorisch aufgenommen werden.
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• Regelumkehrung
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• Affective (context)
  ...that contains the feature ''Affect''(''ive'') may ultimately appear as an indefinite."'' (Klima 1964:313)
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• Weak noun phrase
  The term was introduced by Milsark (1977) as a more general term for indefinite noun phrases. Besides traditional indefinites like ''a boy'' and ''boys'',
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• Definiteness restriction
  ...e subject of a sentence beginning with [[expletive]] ''there'', must be an indefinite noun phrase, or in Milsark's (1977) terms, a [[weak noun phrase]]. The defi
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• Specificity condition
  ...ment out of a definite NP) and (ii) (''wh''-movement out of a non-specific indefinite NP). Also known as Specificity Constraint.
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• Negative polarity item
  English [[indefinite pronouns]] such as ''any, either'', [[minimizer]]s such as ''a fig, a drop, *Haspelmath, Martin. 1997. ''Indefinite pronouns.'' Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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• Foot
  ...unded feet contain at most two syllables and unbounded ones may contain an indefinite number of syllables. Within feet, one of the syllables is dominant, i.e. th
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• Article
  A language does not necessarily have both an non-specific/indefinite and a specific/definite marker. These markers often stem from very differen
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• Logic
  ...itions are exclusively true or false) three-valued logics (true, false and indefinite) and other many-valued logics have been defined. The characteristic of thes
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• Scrambling
  ...that [[definiteness]] is a factor interfering with scrambling. Nonspecific indefinite NPs cannot be scrambled and neither can particles or small clause predicate
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• Impersonal construction
  The non-realized subjects of impersonals are often interpreted as indefinite human agents, thus those constructions are often only possible with verbs w
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• Tenses of English
  ...h THEN, i.e. a specific period in the past which can be either definite or indefinite. The past is used when a speaker is concerned with “the past situation it ...lled 'anchor-time' (mostly by adverbials), which can be either definite or indefinite. (10) is not fully interpretable in isolation, whereas (11) is fully interp
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• Antikausativ
  ...tiv-Bedeutung haben, können auch andere Bedeutung haben (Reflexiv, Passiv, indefinite Objekttilgung) || || Morpheme, die Kausativ-Bedeutung haben, haben diese a
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• Satzmodus
  *– Ders., Sentence Mood Constitution and Indefinite Noun Phrases. In: K. v. Heusinger et al. (Hg.), NP Interpretation and Infor
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• Irish
  ..., but theoretical syntacticians reject this analysis.) If the predicate is indefinite, it precedes the subject, and is separated from it by an agreement particle
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• Tsez
  ! future indefinite ..."I want and I will...") and is often used with the first person, while the indefinite one (simply "I will...") tends to be used with second and third.
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• James D. McCawley/publications
  *1992f. Modifiers hosted by indefinite and interrogative pronouns. Linguistic Inquiry 23.663-7.
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