Direct and indirect aboutness topics
Acta Linguistica Hungarica2008Vol. 55(3-4), pp. 297–307
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Abstract
We 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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