Students: Chapter Resources
Chapter 4
Checklist of Key Notions
4.1 Deixis
- indexicality, indexical
- deixis, deictic
- person deixis
- discourse roles
- personal pronouns
- associative plural
- possessive pronouns
4.2 Demonstratives and place deixis
- demonstratives
- proximal, medial, distal
- place deixis
4.3 Time deixis
4.4 Definiteness and indefiniteness
- article
- anaphor, antecedent
- coreferent
- determination, determiner
- definite
- semantic vs pragmatic uniqueness
- types of nouns: sortal, individual, relational, functional noun
- singular and plural
- count nouns vs mass nouns
- indefinite NPs: simple vs with quantity specification
4.5 Quantification
- quantification
- quantifier
- domain of quantification
- quantified predication
- partitive construction
- distributive, collective predication
4.6 Generic NPs
- generic, genericity
- generic vs episodic
- generic quantification
4.7 Presuppositions
- presuppositions
- presupposition carriers: definite NPs, verbs of change, factive verbs
- Presupposition of Indivisibility
- truth conditions
- presupposition tests: negation test, question test
- Principle of Consistent Interpretation
- accommodation
Artwork
- Figure 4.1 Uses of demonstratives and the definite article
- Figure 4.2 Negation contrasts for definite and quantifying NPs
- Figure 4.3 The nominal onion
- Table 4.1 German paradigm of personal pronouns (nominative case)
- Table 4.2 Strategies of pronominal formal address
- Table 4.3 Form paradigm of the Spanish verb (indicative present active)
- Table 4.4 Possessive suffixes in Hungarian
- Table 4.5 Japanese demonstratives
- Table 4.6 Pronominal and adnominal deictic expressions
- Table 4.7 Types of nouns
- Table 4.8 Components of quantification
- Table 4.9 Quantificational and non-quantificational NPs
- Table 4.10 Definite NPs and their presuppositions
- Table 4.11 Verbs and their presuppositions
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