This paper has two major goals. First, we want to critically assess the ‘‘universal free choice’’ (UFCA) analysis as it has been formulated in Menéndez-Benito (2010) for Spanish Free Choice Items (FCIs), while updating the dependent indefinite analysis of FCIs proposed originally in Giannakidou (1997, 2001). We find the UFCA empirically inadequate for FCIs, failing to capture their correct dist...

Irreality and modality often converge in the literature. Nevertheless, there are grounds to keep the two notions separate. The effort of defining irreality in non-modal terms leads to redefine irreality as a supercategory encompassing three close conceptual domains concerned with the non-actualization of a SoA: counterfactuality, non-exclusion of factuality and non-referentiality. This article ...

The paper investigates investigates how Italian and Greek employ Clitic Left Dislocation (clld) to encode discourse topics. Greek is sensitive to the definiteness/referentiality of the topic, employing clld exclusively for referential topics and resorting to Topicalisation for non-referential/property denoting topics. By contrast, clld is the main topic-strategy in Italian including non-referen...

Undoubtedly, the second half of 20th century and early 21st are notable for extensive artistic experiment, including metatextual metafictional phenomena. Such scholars as Gérard Genette, Anna Wierzbicka, Patricia Waugh, Linda Hutcheon, Robert Sholes, many others focused on mentioned issues in their research work. Therefore, this paper considers metatextuality metafiction theoretical perspective...

This article argues that the association between institutionalization and strong epistemological, political, anthropological ontological objectivity leads to institutional fundamentalism in three basic problematic aspects for societal-cultural-institutional current dynamics: first, institution’s centralization monopolization of constitution, legitimation public foment creed, so institution beco...

Social networks are considered an ontological attribute of the existence a modern person. The ideas describe important role system social in socialization and adaptation person, motivation to activity, assistance support difficult life situations. studies criminals’ show their significance crime, formation criminal ideology. Besides, it is proved that quality impacts prevention suppression crim...

The category of an event is one the most problematic areas in contemporary theoretical literary studies. Both foreign and Russian scholars pay attention to singling out a set markers event. It no wonder that so-called realistic prose usually chosen as concrete historical material for illustration concepts due its claims authentic reproduction objective reality. later involves highly dynamic web...

Abstract This paper explores the semantics of bare singulars in Turkish, which are unmarked for number form, as English, but can behave like both singular and plural terms, unlike English. While they terms case-marked arguments, interpreted neutrally non-case-marked argument positions, existential copular construction, predicate position. Previous accounts (Bliss, Calgary Papers Linguistics 25:...

extended abstract 1. introduction the diversity of impersonal constructions and the different approaches used in studying them have caused different and sometimes contradictory positions about their classification and the explanation of grammatical and semantic roles of their components. this article reveals the necessity of studying them with a new approach which pursues a common basis coverin...