caa a22 4500 60615423X CHVBK 20210128100557.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10988-015-9167-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10988-015-9167-y Onea Edgar Courant Forschungszentrum "Textstrukturen”, Nachwuchsgruppe "Theoretische Linguistik”, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Nikolausberger Weg 23, 37073, Göttingen, Germany aut Why indefinites can escape scope islands [Elektronische Daten] [Edgar Onea] One of the big questions about indefinites is why they can escape scope islands (Fodor and Sag, in Linguist Philos 5:355-398, 1982). In the recent approach of Brasoveanu and Farkas (Linguist Philos 34(1):1-55, 2011) scopal relations with syntactically dominating quantifiers are hard wired into the semantic definition of the existential quantifier, which immediately explains why the semantic scope of indefinites may exceed their syntactic scope. In this paper, I argue for the revival of an alternative approach which places the explanatory burden on the idea that indefinites are essentially referential expressions, similar to definites, and not plain existential quantifiers. I propose one fully explicit variant of such theories and argue that it comes with a number of conceptual and empirical advantages over competing theories. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2015 Indefinites nationallicence Scope islands nationallicence Quantification nationallicence Compositionality nationallicence Specificity nationallicence Linguistics and Philosophy Springer Netherlands 38/3(2015-06-01), 237-267 0165-0157 38:3<237 2015 38 10988 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-015-9167-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-015-9167-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Onea Edgar Courant Forschungszentrum "Textstrukturen”, Nachwuchsgruppe "Theoretische Linguistik”, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Nikolausberger Weg 23, 37073, Göttingen, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Linguistics and Philosophy Springer Netherlands 38/3(2015-06-01), 237-267 0165-0157 38:3<237 2015 38 10988