The syntax and semantics of a determiner system : a case study of Mauritian Creole / / Diana Guillemin

• Autore: Guillemin Diana
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub., 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (328 p.)
• Disciplina: 447/.96982
• Soggetto topico: Creole dialects, French - Mauritius - Grammar
• Classificazione: ID 9316
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The Syntax and Semantics of a Determiner System; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; 1.Sources of Mauritian Creole; 1. Origins; 2. Language situation in Mauritius; 3. A corpus-based approach to the study of MC determiners; 4. Outline of this work; 2.Introduction; 1. Why the determiner system?; 1.1 A quantificational approach; 2. Early changes from French to MC; 3. The new MC determiner system; 4. Syntactic framework; 4.1 A rationale for Minimalism; 4.2 The Determiner Phrase; 5. Semantics of determiners; 5.1 Definitions ; 5.2 Formal Semantics5.3 Noun categories and layers in the DP; 6. The feature argumental [ARG]; 7. Contribution to linguistic theory; 3.Syntactic framework; 1. Assumptions of the Minimalist Program; 1.1 X-bar theory; 1.1.1 Bare phrase structure; 1.2 Contain and c-command; 1.3 Economy principles; 1.4 The principle of Full Interpretation; 1.5 Derivation by phase; 1.6 Case and agreement; 2. Logical form; 2.1 Quantifier raising; 2.2 Scope; 2.3 Legitimate LF elements; 3. The architecture of the MC clause; 3.1 The Split Inflectional Hypothesis; 4. Predication; 4.1 The predicate phrase ; 5. DPs and NPs5.1 Weak and strong determiners; 6. Bare nouns and the feature Argument [ARG]; 7. The architecture of the MC noun phrase; 7.1 Phases within the DP; 7.1.1 Licensing empty categories; 4. Semantics; 1. Introduction; 2. Part I: Definitions; 2.1 Definiteness; 2.1.1 The 'Familiarity' theory of definiteness; 2.1.2 Incomplete definite descriptions; 2.1.3 Singular and plural definite descriptions; 2.1.4 Referential and attributive uses of definite descriptions; 2.1.5 Stages of Familiarity; 2.1.6 Anaphoric uses of definite descriptions ; 2.1.7 Immediate situational uses of definite descriptions2.1.8 Larger situational uses of definite descriptions; 2.1.9 Unfamiliarity uses of definite descriptions; 2.2 Specificity; 2.2.1 The indefinite article; 2.2.2 Indefinite 'this'; 2.2.3 Are all definites specific?; 2.3 Deixis; 2.3.1 Exophoric functions of demonstratives; 2.3.2 ndophoric functions of demonstratives; 3. Part II: The function of determiners and the denotation of nouns; 3.1 Weak and strong determiners; 3.2 DPs and NPs; 3.3 Denotation; 3.4 Kinds; 4. The count vs. mass distinction; 4.1 Parts and boundaries ; 4.1.1 The function PL(ural)4.1.2 The ELT (Element of) function; 4.1.3 The function Definiteness; 4.2 The atomic structure of nouns; 5. Part III: Formal Semantics; 5.1 Categories of noun phrases; 5.2 Partee's 'Noun interpretation and Type-shifting principles'; 5.3 Chierchia's 'Derived Kind Predication'; 5.4 Zamparelli's 'Multi-Layer DP Hypothesis'; 6. The semantics of Predication; 6.1 Aristotle's definition of Predication; 6.2 Bowers' (1993) Semantics of Predication; 6.3 Type-shifting: General principles and particular rules; 5.Early changes; 1. Introduction ; 2. Reanalysis and loss of the French determiners
• Sommario/riassunto: Within the framework of Chomsky's Minimalism and Formal Semantics, this work documents the development of the Mauritian Creole (MC) determiner system from the mid 18th century to the present. Guillemin proposes that the loss of the French quantificational determiners, which agglutinated to nouns, resulted in the occurrence of bare nouns in argument positions. This triggered a shift in noun denotation, from predicative in French to argumental in MC, and accounts for the very different determiner systems of the creole and its lexifier. MC nouns are lexically stored as Kind denoting terms,
• Titolo autorizzato: The syntax and semantics of a determiner system
• ISBN: 1-283-31479-7; 9786613314796; 90-272-8470-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811197003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Creole language library ; ; v. 38.