TY  - JOUR
A1  - Endriss, Cornelia
A1  - Hinterwimmer, Stefan
T1  - Direct and indirect aboutness topics
N2  - 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.
KW  - Aboutness Topics
KW  - Indefinites
KW  - Wide Scope
KW  - Left-Dislocation
KW  - Quantificational Variability Effects
Y1  - 2007
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-19640
ER  -