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Partee-Borschev Grant Group Meeting

The Partee-Borschev Grant Group meets on Tuesday, November 20, at 12:45 pm, in the Partee Room. Amy Rose Deal and Annahita Farudi are presenting:

Alternatives for Persian Indefinites

Persian has three types of indefinite objects: bare nouns, and nouns marked with either or a combination of two "indefinite articles", ye and -i. Using a Hamblin semantics, we argue that -i introduces alternatives of type drawn from the common noun denotation, while ye forms an existential generalized quantifier whose restrictor can be drawn from a set of alternatives introduced by -i. We explore the interaction of these alternatives with various operators (negation, universal quantification, questions).

[Thanks Aynat!]