We report on the interpretation of different forms of singular argument nominals in Burmese, a language without articles, from original fieldwork. Indefinites use the numeral ‘one’ and introduce anti-uniqueness inferences. We derive this effect from a novel proposal for ‘one’ indefinites together with a Non-Vacuity constraint, rather than Maximize Presupposition, with crucial evidence from anaphoric definites with ‘one.’

Keywords: Burmese nominals definiteness indefiniteness one choice function Non-Vacuity semantics hidden