Definiteness and Indefiniteness in Burmese

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Meghan Lim and Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine [**Video also on YouTube**](https://youtu.be/EjDbMbUd3bQ) **Q&A:** Friday, July 24, 10:30 am CEST We report on **the interpretation of different forms of singular argument nominals in Burmese**, a language without articles, from original fieldwork. Like in Mandarin Chinese (Jenks, 2018), bare nouns are unique deﬁnites, with demonstratives used for anaphoric deﬁnites. Indeﬁnites use the numeral ‘one.’ We develop an analysis based on Jenks’ analysis of Mandarin Chinese definites, extended with a novel proposal for ‘one’ indefinites. Indefinites introduce an antiuniqueness inference, which we derive from a Non-Triviality constraint rather than Maximize Presupposition à la Heim 1991, with crucial evidence from anaphoric definites with ‘one.’

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