Maximize Presupposition and Two Types of Definite Competitors

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In Suzi Lima, Kevin Mullin & Brian Smith (eds.), Proceedings of NELS 39 - Volume 1. Amherst, MA: GLSA. pp. 29-40 (2011)
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Indefinites impose an anti-uniqueness condition on their domain of quantification. The sentence in (1), for instance, cannot be felicitously uttered when it is taken for granted that John has only one friend (Hawkins 1978, 1991, Heim 1991).

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