Catalog Search

Your cart is empty

Your wish list is empty

Last update:
9 February 2010

Catalog	How to	Info
New titles Journals and yearbooks Book series Online products Browse subjects Browse by person Browse before you buy	Order books Subscribe to a journal Join our mailing list Inform us of your change of address Submit a book proposal Obtain our catalogs	About us Contact Conferences Disclaimer Rights & permissions

Blurb Table of contents Subjects

Nominal Determination

Typology, context constraints, and historical emergence

Edited by Elisabeth Stark, Elisabeth Leiss and Werner Abraham

Freie Universität Berlin / Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München / Universität Wien

Studies in Language Companion Series 89

2007. viii, 370 pp.
Publishing status: Available

Hardbound – In stock
978 90 272 3099 7 / EUR 120.00 / USD 180.00

Add to shopping cart

e-Book – Available from e-book platforms
978 90 272 9210 0 / EUR 120.00 / USD 180.00
Ordering information

Add to wish list

The following theoretical-empirical points on the DP are discussed: Article and its referential-anaphoric properties by Abraham (Determiners in Centering Theory); Bartra (On bare NPs in Old Spanish and Catalan); identification of all functional nominal categories by Stvan (Bare singular count nouns); Kupisch & Koops (Specificity and negation); Jäger (History of German indefinite determiners); typological comparison of the interaction of nominal and verbal determination by Abraham (Discourse-functional crystallization of the original demonstrative); Leiss (Covert (in)definiteness and aspect in Old Icelandic, Gothic, Old High German); Lohndal (Double definiteness during Old Norse); emergence of DP in ontogeny/phylogeny by Osawa (DP, TP and aspect in Old English and L1 acquisition); Bittner (Early functions of definites in L1 acquisition); Wood (Demonstratives and possessives emergent from Old English); Bauer ((in)definite articles in Indo-European) and Stark (Variation in nominal indefiniteness in Romance).

Preface	vii
Introduction Werner Abraham, Elisabeth Stark and Elisabeth Leiss	1–20
Part 1. Synchrony – and its implications for diachrony
Discourse binding: DP and pronouns in German, Dutch, and English Werner Abraham	21–47
Gender, number, and indefinite articles: About the 'typological inconsistency' of Italian Elisabeth Stark	49–71
Covert patterns of definiteness/indefiniteness and aspectuality in Old Icelandic, Gothic, and Old High German Elisabeth Leiss	73–102
The definite article in Indo-European: Emergence of a new grammatical category? Brigitte L.M. Bauer	103–139
'No' changes: On the history of German indefinite determiners in the scope of negation Agnes Jäger	141–170
Part 2. Synchrony – ontological and typological characteristics
The functional range of bare singular count nouns in English Laurel Smith Stvan	171–187
The definite article in non-specific object noun phrases: Comparing French and Italian Tanja Kupisch and Christian Koops	189–213
Early functions of definite determiners and DPs in German first language acquisition Dagmar Bittner	215–240
Part 3. Diachrony – universally unified characteristics?
The discourse-functional crystallization of DP from the original demonstrative Werner Abraham	241–256
Determinerless noun phrases in Old Romance passives Anna Bartra-Kaufman	257–286
On the structure and development of nominal phrases in Norwegian Terje Lohndal	287–310
The emergence of DP from a perspective of ontogeny and phylogeny: Correlation between DP, TP and aspect in Old English and first language acquisition Fuyo Osawa	311–337
Demonstratives and possessives: From Old English to present-day English Johanna L. Wood	339–361
Index	363–369

Linguistics: Historical linguistics
Semantics
Syntax
Typology

Nominal Determination

Typology, context constraints, and historical emergence

Table of contents

Subject classification