| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 247 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today,
0166-0829 ; v. 147
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Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 147.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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: The semantic core of determiners: evidence from Skwxwú7mesh / Carrie Gillon -- On the presence versus absence of determiners in Malagasy / Ileana Paul. |
| Summary |
This volume brings together recent work on the formal and interpretational properties of determiners across a variety of typologically and geographically unrelated languages. It seeks to answer the core question of modern linguistic theory: Which properties of languages are universal and which are variable? In recent theorizing, much of language variation is argued to stem from differences in the properties of features associated with functional heads. As such, this volume can be viewed as a case study of one such category: the determiner (D). The contributions all investigate the status of D. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Determiners.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Determiners. |
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Definiteness (Linguistics)
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Definiteness (Linguistics) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Ghomeshi, Jila.
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Paul, Ileana.
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Wiltschko, Martina.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Determiners. Philadelphia, Pa. : John Benjamins Pub. Company, ©2009 9789027255303 (DLC) 2009028111 (OCoLC)424454975 |
| ISBN |
9789027288950 (electronic book) |
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902728895X (electronic book) |
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9789027255303 (hc ; alkaline paper) |
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902725530X (hc ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786612395451 |
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