In many languages, an indefinite determiner or numeral may be inflected to indicate that the value of the indefinite DP depends on another DP in the sentence or in context. Most semantic analyses of dependent indefinites formalize a similar insight: dependent indefinites contribute a variation condition: the value of the variable introduced by the indefinite must vary with respect to the value of another variable in the sentence or in context. The specific implementation of this insight varies in significant ways, notably on the following two fundamental architectural questions: 1. Are dependent indefinites anaphoric to their licensor? 2. Are dependent indefinites themselves quantificational? In this paper, I argue the following: 1) dependent indefinites have an anaphoric component; 2) they are themselves quantificational. I argue that new data involving spatial agreement in American Sign Language gives insight into these questions, but that the answers have theoretical and empirical ramifications beyond sign language. An analysis is presented within the framework of Plural Compositional DRT (Brasoveanu 2006, i.a.).

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从属不定式：手语的观点

在许多语言中，可能会使用不定确定符或数字来表示不定DP的值取决于句子中或上下文中的另一个DP。大多数对不定式进行语义分析的形式都可以得出类似的见解：不定式会带来变化条件：由不定式引入的变量的值必须相对于句子中或上下文中另一个变量的值而变化。此洞察力的具体实现方式有很大不同，特别是在以下两个基本体系结构问题上：1.依赖不定式是否隐含了许可方？2.相依不定式本身是否可以量化？在本文中，我提出以下观点：1）从属不定式具有照应成分；2）它们本身是量化的。我认为，涉及美国手语中空间一致性的新数据可以洞悉这些问题，但是答案除了手语之外，还具有理论和经验方面的影响。在多元组成DRT的框架内进行了分析（Brasoveanu 2006，ia）。