On the Special Case of the Definiteness Effect: Conditions for the Admission of the Quantifier “every” into the Post-Copular Nominal Group of the English Existential Construction

The reasons for the functioning of the quantifier “every” in the pivot noun phrases in English there-sentences are studied. The relevance of the study is seen in the incompleteness of the solution to the definiteness effect and its exceptions. The novelty of the study is due to the appeal to previou...

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Autor principal:	O. V. Dolmatova
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Publicado:	Tsentr nauchnykh i obrazovatelnykh proektov 2019
Materias:	definiteness effect determiners quantifiers existential constructions existential quantifier universal quantifier Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages PG1-9665
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:5aa02f9979ea42b28cbaa8aedba1f83a2021-12-02T07:58:08ZOn the Special Case of the Definiteness Effect: Conditions for the Admission of the Quantifier “every” into the Post-Copular Nominal Group of the English Existential Construction2225-756X2227-129510.24224/2227-1295-2019-10-110-127https://doaj.org/article/5aa02f9979ea42b28cbaa8aedba1f83a2019-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.nauka-dialog.ru/jour/article/view/1329https://doaj.org/toc/2225-756Xhttps://doaj.org/toc/2227-1295The reasons for the functioning of the quantifier “every” in the pivot noun phrases in English there-sentences are studied. The relevance of the study is seen in the incompleteness of the solution to the definiteness effect and its exceptions. The novelty of the study is due to the appeal to previously unexplored behavior of universal quantifiers in the desired construction. The sample included 626 examples of the breaking of the definiteness effect extracted from the British national corpus and the corpus of contemporary American English. It is stated that the quantifier “every” has specific conditions in this construction, subject to the principle of exhaustion of a set common to universal quantifiers. It is proposed to consider the emphatic meaning of the full involvement of the object, expressed as a noun in the main noun group, to be a characteristic feature. There are restrictions on the types of nouns that can occupy this position. The connection between the type of noun in the noun phrase and the connotation of the exhaustion of the set meaning is shown: the complete exhaustion of the species within the set, the complete involvement of the object as an indivisible unit, the complete exhaustion of the set consisting of separate countable elements. The role of actual and hyperbolized set boundaries is indicated. The conclusion about the normative nature of the certainty effect is drawn; cases of its breaking are considered as a variant of emphase.O. V. DolmatovaTsentr nauchnykh i obrazovatelnykh proektovarticledefiniteness effectdeterminersquantifiersexistential constructionsexistential quantifieruniversal quantifierSlavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languagesPG1-9665RUНаучный диалог, Vol 0, Iss 10, Pp 110-127 (2019)
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spellingShingle	definiteness effect determiners quantifiers existential constructions existential quantifier universal quantifier Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages PG1-9665 O. V. Dolmatova On the Special Case of the Definiteness Effect: Conditions for the Admission of the Quantifier “every” into the Post-Copular Nominal Group of the English Existential Construction
description	The reasons for the functioning of the quantifier “every” in the pivot noun phrases in English there-sentences are studied. The relevance of the study is seen in the incompleteness of the solution to the definiteness effect and its exceptions. The novelty of the study is due to the appeal to previously unexplored behavior of universal quantifiers in the desired construction. The sample included 626 examples of the breaking of the definiteness effect extracted from the British national corpus and the corpus of contemporary American English. It is stated that the quantifier “every” has specific conditions in this construction, subject to the principle of exhaustion of a set common to universal quantifiers. It is proposed to consider the emphatic meaning of the full involvement of the object, expressed as a noun in the main noun group, to be a characteristic feature. There are restrictions on the types of nouns that can occupy this position. The connection between the type of noun in the noun phrase and the connotation of the exhaustion of the set meaning is shown: the complete exhaustion of the species within the set, the complete involvement of the object as an indivisible unit, the complete exhaustion of the set consisting of separate countable elements. The role of actual and hyperbolized set boundaries is indicated. The conclusion about the normative nature of the certainty effect is drawn; cases of its breaking are considered as a variant of emphase.
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title	On the Special Case of the Definiteness Effect: Conditions for the Admission of the Quantifier “every” into the Post-Copular Nominal Group of the English Existential Construction
title_short	On the Special Case of the Definiteness Effect: Conditions for the Admission of the Quantifier “every” into the Post-Copular Nominal Group of the English Existential Construction
title_full	On the Special Case of the Definiteness Effect: Conditions for the Admission of the Quantifier “every” into the Post-Copular Nominal Group of the English Existential Construction
title_fullStr	On the Special Case of the Definiteness Effect: Conditions for the Admission of the Quantifier “every” into the Post-Copular Nominal Group of the English Existential Construction
title_full_unstemmed	On the Special Case of the Definiteness Effect: Conditions for the Admission of the Quantifier “every” into the Post-Copular Nominal Group of the English Existential Construction
title_sort	on the special case of the definiteness effect: conditions for the admission of the quantifier “every” into the post-copular nominal group of the english existential construction
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On the Special Case of the Definiteness Effect: Conditions for the Admission of the Quantifier “every” into the Post-Copular Nominal Group of the English Existential Construction

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