The Indefiniteness and Focusing of Wh-Words

ion may only apply to expressions of relational type (a type ending in t). Hence, the set of DPLC types is as defined below. Definition 1 (Primitive Relational Types) PRT , the set of primitive relational types, is the smallest set such that:

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