| Speaker | Beck, Sigrid |
| Affiliaton(s) | XPrag project ObTrEx, Universität Tübingen |
| Workshop | Evening lecture at XPrag.de Summerschool |
| Date | 08.08.2019 |
| Time | 18:00 o'clock |
| Venue | Humboldt University, Seminar Building, Dorotheenstr. 24, 10117 Berlin, lecture hall 1.101 |
| Link to XPrag.de summerschool webpage |
The talk presents diachronic and crosslinguistic evidence that indeterminate phrases have a Hamblin alternative semantics. This includes their uses as polarity items, arguing against an analysis in terms of property alternatives. We explore some consequences for the analysis of polarity.