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Some Notes on Indefinites

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Östen Dahl
Östen Dahl*
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University of Göteborg
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Abstract

The use of the Russian indefinites in -to and -nibud’ is analysed from the viewpoint of generative semantics. It is argued that the choice between the two suffixes is determined by the underlying structure of the sentence, where the ordering of quantifiers is of primary importance. The relative positions of quantifiers is also shown to be relevant for the semantic difference between the English pronouns any and every.

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Language , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , March 1970 , pp. 33 - 41
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Copyright © 1970 by Linguistic Society of America

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