<div dir="auto">Dear Christian, <div dir="auto">Here some marginal observations concerning the very interesting debate. An Italian native speaker may say: " lunedì c'è il / un mercato", meaning that on next monday there will be the usual /a special, not habitual market ;or that every monday is the market day, in the sense of Lyons' ' cyclic names. "Il lunedì c'è il mercato" , with the preposed article, has just the second meaning , though the presence of the article is not compulsory in order to express habituality. </div><div dir="auto">As you may see, there is a certain ambiguity which depends on the contextual situation ;and not everything is black or white. </div><div dir="auto">Best,</div><div dir="auto">Paolo </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Il Ven 28 Giu 2024, 19:39 Christian Lehmann via Lingtyp <<a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>> ha scritto:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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Many thanks to those who engaged in the discussion and provided
helpful hints, and especially to Mark for the extensive argument and
the offprint.<br>
Greetings, Christian<br>
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