03506nam 2200673Ia 450 991096753280332120200520144314.09786612395451978128239545912823954599789027288950902728895X10.1075/la.147(CKB)1000000000799220(SSID)ssj0000336644(PQKBManifestationID)11241320(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000336644(PQKBWorkID)10282246(PQKB)11267850(MiAaPQ)EBC622440(Au-PeEL)EBL622440(CaPaEBR)ebr10342344(CaONFJC)MIL239545(OCoLC)527853574(DE-B1597)721102(DE-B1597)9789027288950(EXLCZ)99100000000079922020090708d2009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrDeterminers universals and variation /edited by Jila Ghomeshi, Ileana Paul, Martina Wiltschko1st ed.Philadelphia, Pa. ;Amsterdam John Benjamins Pub. Companyc2009247 pLinguistik aktuell/Linguistics today,0166-0829 ;v. 147Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9789027255303 902725530X 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: on the presence versus absence of determiners in Malagasy / Ileana Paul -- The semantic core of determiners: evidence from Skwxwú7mesh / Carrie Gillon.This article explores definiteness as expressed by the determiner system of Malagasy. In particular, noun phrases with and without an overt determiner are compared in terms of familiarity, uniqueness, and other semantic notions commonly associated with definiteness. It is shown that the determiner does not uniformly signal definiteness (as typically understood) and that bare noun phrases can be interpreted as either definite or indefinite. The determiner instead signals the familiarity of the discourse referent of the DP and the absence of a determiner signals a non-familiar DP. In certain syntactic positions, however, where the determiner is either required or banned, the interpretation of DPs is underdetermined.Grammar, Comparative and generalDeterminersDefiniteness (Linguistics)Grammar, Comparative and generalDeterminers.Definiteness (Linguistics)415Ghomeshi Jila1802254Paul Ileana1708408Wiltschko Martina1802255MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910967532803321Determiners4347828UNINA