TY - CHAP TI - How weak and how definite are Weak Definites? AU - Schwarz, Florian T2 - Weak Referentiality A2 - Aguilar-Guevara, Ana A2 - Le Bruyn, Bert A2 - Zwarts, Joost T3 - Linguistics Today Series AB - This paper explores the potential for a unified analysis of Weak Definites and regular definites. I first consider and argue against assimilating Weak Definites to co-varying interpretations of regular definites via general mechanisms. Next, I present a new proposal for analyzing Weak Definites, which sees them as regular definites occurring in verb phrases that denote kinds of events. This has the promise of allowing us to maintain a unified analysis of definites in terms of uniqueness while at the same time capturing the special properties of Weak Definites. CY - Amsterdam/Philadelphia DA - 2014/// PY - 2014 SP - 213 EP - 235 PB - John Benjamins SV - 219 UR - https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/la.219.09sch/details ER -