Essays on Nominal Determination
From morphology to discourse management
Editors
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.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 99] 2008. xviii, 369 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 19 September 2008
Published online on 19 September 2008
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Contributors | pp. vii–viii
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The editors | p. ix
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IntroductionHenrik Høeg Müller and Alex Klinge | pp. xi–xviii
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Determiners and definiteness: Functional semantics and structural differentiationPeter Harder | pp. 1–25
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Articles, definite and indefiniteMichael Herslund | pp. 27–43
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Typological correlations in nominal determination in RomanceElisabeth Stark | pp. 45–63
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A stranger in the house: The French article deMarc Wilmet | pp. 65–78
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Determination in endocentric and exocentric languages: With evidence primarily from Danish and ItalianIørn Korzen | pp. 79–99
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Bare predicate nominals in Romance languagesRoberto Zamparelli | pp. 101–130
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Definiteness effect and the role of the coda in existential constructionsManuel Leonetti | pp. 131–162
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Determination of N2 modifiers in Spanish nominal syntagmatic compoundsHenrik Høeg Müller | pp. 163–188
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Reference to individuals, person, and the variety of mapping parametersGiuseppe Longobardi | pp. 189–211
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English th- formsJudy B. Bernstein | pp. 213–232
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Stating the case for þ- root and hw- root determinersAlex Klinge | pp. 233–263
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On certain differences between noun phrases and clausesNaoki Fukui and Mihoko Zushi | pp. 265–286
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Determination, nominalisation and conceptual processingHelle Dam-Jensen | pp. 287–308
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The semantics and pragmatics of the possessive determinerGeorges Kleiber | pp. 309–336
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Reference, determiners and descriptive contentThorstein Fretheim and Nana Aba Appiah Amfo | pp. 337–364
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Index | pp. 365–369
“This book is satisfying in that it offers a focused treatment of the very basic and important linguistic feature of nominal determination, which encompasses definite and indefinite articles, possessives, demonstratives, quantifiers,numerals, adjectives, nouns and their phrasal projections, and discourse management, as pointed out in the introduction...if you are interested in topics like definite and indefinite articles,generic plurals, and linguistic number, you are bound to find something in this volume that rewards you for whatever time you invest in it.”
Karen Steffen Chung, National Taiwan University, on Linguist List 22.400, 2011
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFK: Grammar, syntax
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General