Shan noun parameters

Shan (Southwestern Tai, Kra-Dai) has no overt articles, so no covert type-shift is blocked and bare nouns reach definite, kind, and existential readings directly; in particular both ι and ι^x are unblocked, which lets bare nouns express unique and anaphoric definiteness alike ([Mor21] §4.3). Contrast MeaningPreservation.englishBlocking, where the blocks covert ι and a/some block covert ∃.

References

• [Mor21], §4.3

def Shan.Nouns.blocking : Semantics.Kinds.NMP.BlockingPrinciple

The Shan blocking principle blocks no type-shift, since Shan has no overt determiners.

Equations

• Shan.Nouns.blocking = { determiners := [], iotaBlocked := false, existsBlocked := false, downBlocked := false }