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Bitte beziehen Sie sich beim Zitieren dieses Dokumentes immer auf folgende URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-19640 URL: http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2008/1964/ Endriss, Cornelia ; Hinterwimmer, Stefan
Direct and indirect aboutness topics
Kurzfassung auf EnglischWe propose a definition of aboutness topicality that not only encompasses individual denoting DPs, but also indefinites. We concentrate on the interpretative effects of marking indefinites as topics: they either receive widest scope in their clause, or they are interpreted in the restrictor of an overt or covert Q-adverb. We show that in the first case they are direct aboutness topics insofar as they are the subject of a predication expressed by the comment, while in the second case they are indirect aboutness topics: they define the subject of a higher-order predication – namely the set of situations that the respective Q-adverb quantifies over.
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