This paper provides a compositional semantics for the Japanese Q-particle ka that properly
accounts for its use in questions, indefinites and disjunctions in a unified fashion. Adopting …

Let us return to the question of whether the two readings differ in event complex-ity. This
would mean that the verbs under discussion productively have two event construals. Two …

This book brings together novel work on the semantics and pragmatics of certain indefinite
expressions that also convey modality. These epistemic indefinites are determiners or …

The main goal of this dissertation is to provide a new understanding into the phenomena of
definiteness and indefiniteness in the Korean language. As Korean is one of the well-known …

This dissertation concerns the expression of epistemic modality across syntactic categories
in Kipsigis, an understudied Kalenjin language of Western Kenya. In addition to describing a …

This paper discusses one understudied variety of indefinites, which I call quotational
indefinites. Quotational indefinites are attested in languages like Bulgarian and German …

Abstract is paper focusses on the examination of the properties of epistemic indefinites in
Sinhala, with comparison to other languages, including English and Hindi. In particular, a …

Tiwa (Tibeto-Burman; India) has two series of epistemic indefinites: one whose epistemic
effects arise via an anti-singleton constraint similar to Spanish algún (Alonso-Ovalle and …

In this paper I investigate a use of the English determiner some with numerals, as in twenty-
some. This kind of construction has an approximative interpretation, where it is interpreted …

This dissertation investigates the non-uniformity of Chinese wh-indefinites. The different
algebraic structures associated with the different wh-indefinites are shown to play a …