Determiners: universals and variation
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. John Benjamins Pub. Co. ©2009
Series:Linguistik aktuell Bd. 147
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Determiners: universals and variation / Jila Ghomeshi, Ileana Paul & Martina Wiltschko -- Part I. The features of determiners: what's in a determiner and how did it get there? / Martina Wiltschko -- The proper D connection / Jila Ghomeshi & Diane Massam -- Argumenthood, pronouns, and nominal feature geometry / Elizabeth Cowper & Daniel Currie Hall -- Part II. The function of determiners: from local blocking to Cyclic Agree: the role and meaning of determiners in the history of French / Eric Mathieu -- Kinds of predicates and reference to kinds in Hebrew / Keren Tonciulescu -- Part III. Definiteness and beyond: The semantic core of determiners: evidence from Skwxwú7mesh / Carrie Gillon -- On the presence versus absence of determiners in Malagasy / Ileana Paul
This volume brings together recent work on the formal and interpretational properties of determiners across a variety of typologically and geographically unrelated languages. It seeks to answer the core question of modern linguistic theory: Which properties of languages are universal and which are variable? In recent theorizing, much of language variation is argued to stem from differences in the properties of features associated with functional heads. As such, this volume can be viewed as a case study of one such category: the determiner (D). The contributions all investigate the status of D.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (vii, 247 pages)
ISBN:902725530X
902728895X
9789027255303
9789027288950

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