Essays on nominal determination : from morphology to discourse management / edited by Henrik Heg Muller, Alex Klinge.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Muller, Henrik Heg.

Klinge, Alex.

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; v. 99.

Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; v. 99

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Determiners.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Definiteness (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

xviii, 369 p. : ill.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, c2008.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This volume brings together scholars of diverse theoretical persuasions who all share an interest in capturing the role that nominal determination and reference assignment play in the complicated interplay between thought, language and communication. The articles can be divided roughly into five main areas of concern: the conceptual level of determination; the emergence and function of articles; their semantic contribution to nominal interpretation; the morphology and syntax of determiners; and the interplay and contrasts between articles, demonstratives and possessives. Thus, linguistic and philosophical issues in the subject field of nominal determination are addressed at all interface levels between morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. This volume shows that different theoretical frameworks may be brought fruitfully together in the effort to formulate new analyses of well-known problems, but also to raise new questions and point to new areas which may prove interesting topics for future research both in functional and formal paradigms.

Contents:

Introduction / Henrik Høeg Müller and Alex Klinge

Determiners and definiteness : functional semantics and structural differentiation / Peter Harder

Articles, definite and indefinite / Michael Herslund

Typological correlations in nominal determination in Romance / Elisabeth Stark

A stranger in the house : the French article de / Marc Wilmet

Determination in endocentric and exocentric languages : with evidence primarily from Danish and Italian / Iørn Korzen

Bare predicate nominals in Romance languages / Roberto Zamparelli

Definiteness effect and the role of the coda in existential constructions / Manuel Leonetti

Determination of N2 modifiers in Spanish nominal syntagmatic compounds / Henrik Høeg Müller

Reference to individuals, person, and the variety of mapping parameters / Giuseppe Longobardi

English th- forms / Judy B. Bernstein

Stating the case for p- root and hw- root determiners / Alex Klinge

On certain differences between noun phrases and clauses / Naoki Fukui and Mihoko Zushi

Determination, nominalisation and conceptual processing / Helle Dam-Jensen

The semantics and pragmatics of the possessive determiner / Georges Kleiber

Reference, determiners and descriptive content / Thorstein Fretheim and Nana Aba Appiah Amfo.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612105333

9781282105331

1282105337

9789027290304

902729030X