Determiners : universals and variation / / edited by Jila Ghomeshi, Ileana Paul, Martina Wiltschko

• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, Pa. ; ; Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, c2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 247 p
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Grammar, Comparative and general - Determiners; Definiteness (Linguistics)
• Altri autori: GhomeshiJila PaulIleana WiltschkoMartina
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Determiners
• ISBN: 1-282-39545-9; 9786612395451; 90-272-8895-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820210003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II