Sabine Iatridou has a new paper available online:
Iatridou, Sabine. 2007. “A Free Choice Item Hidden in Verbal Morphology”, to appear in Glossologia.
Abstract: This paper is couched within the hypothesis that verbal morphology can provide a determiner on the event description. It explores a particular construction in Greek and argues that it contains a free choice indefinite description. In the course of the investigation, the following topics are addressed as well: existential constructions, interval semantics, the meaning of Universal Perfect, temporal modifiers, raising.
What more could one want: free choice, existentials, intervals, the perfect, … perfect! The paper has an extensive discussion of the coolest sentence with any in it that I know (Irene Heim came up with it while Sabine was discussing this project with her):
We are five miles (away) from any gas station.
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