[Lingtyp] nouns denoting months and days of the week

[Paolo Ramat]

Dear Christian,
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.
As you may  see, there is a  certain  ambiguity which  depends on the
contextual  situation ;and not everything  is black or white.
Best,
Paolo

Il Ven 28 Giu 2024, 19:39 Christian Lehmann via Lingtyp <
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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.
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