Definiteness
This 1999 textbook investigates definiteness both from a comparative and a theoretical point of view, showing how languages express definiteness and what definiteness is. It surveys a large number of languages to discover the range of variation in relation to definiteness and related grammatical phe...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York
Cambridge University Press
13.03.1999
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| Edition: | 1 |
| Series: | Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics |
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| ISBN: | 0521368359, 9780521362825, 9780521368353, 0521362822 |
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Table of Contents:
- 6.3 Other definiteness effects -- 6.3.1 Superlatives -- 6.3.2 PP-extraposition and any opacity -- 6.3.3 Property predication -- 6.3.4 Internal-head relatives -- 6.3.5 Concluding remarks -- 7 Defining definiteness -- 7.1 The grammatical, logical and pragmatic traditions -- 7.2 Hawkins: inclusiveness and location -- 7.2.1 Shared sets, inclusiveness and exclusiveness -- 7.2.2 Subsequent developments -- 7.3 Definiteness and quantification -- 7.3.1 Milsark and the quantification restriction -- 7.3.2 Generalized quantifiers -- 7.3.3 Discourse semantics: Heim -- 7.4 Relevance theory -- 7.5 Well, what is definiteness then? -- 7.5.1 Grammaticalization -- 7.5.2 Grammaticalization and definiteness -- 7.5.3 Simple and complex definiteness -- 8 Definiteness and noun phrase structure -- 8.1 The noun phrase as NP -- 8.1.1 The specifier position and definite Dets -- 8.1.2 Affixal articles -- 8.1.3 The definite constraint -- 8.2 The DP hypothesis -- 8.2.1 Movement processes in DP -- 8.2.2 Other functional categories in the noun phrase -- 8.2.3 Weaknesses in the DP analysis -- 8.3 A modified DP analysis -- 8.3.1 D as definiteness -- 8.3.2 The content of determiners -- 8.3.3 The analysis of personal pronouns -- 8.4 Configurationality and definiteness -- 8.5 Definiteness and person -- 8.5.1 Personal determiners and pronouns -- 8.5.2 Person and definite determiners -- 8.5.3 The nature of person-definiteness -- 8.6 Summary of proposals -- 9 Diachronic aspects -- 9.1 The emergence of functional structure -- 9.1.1 The development of DP -- 9.1.2 A definite article cycle -- 9.1.3 Indefinites and CardP -- 9.2 The origin of articles -- 9.2.1 Demonstrative to definite article -- 9.2.2 Articles in competition -- 9.2.3 Numeral to cardinal article -- 9.3 The longer perspective -- 9.3.1 Expansion in article use -- 9.3.2 The life cycle of definite articles -- 9.4 In conclusion
- Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1 Basic observations -- 1.1 What is definiteness? -- 1.1.1 Simple definites and indefinites -- 1.1.2 Familiarity and identifiability -- 1.1.3 Uniqueness and inclusiveness -- 1.1.4 Identifiability, inclusiveness and indefinites -- 1.1.5 A unified account? -- 1.2 Types of definite noun phrase -- 1.2.1 Testing for definiteness -- 1.2.2 Demonstratives -- 1.2.3 Proper nouns -- 1.2.4 Possessives -- 1.2.5 Personal pronouns -- 1.2.6 Universal quantifiers -- 1.3 Simple and complex indefinites -- 1.3.1 Indefiniteness and cardinality -- 1.3.2 Complex indefinites -- 1.4 The noun phrase -- 1.5 Definiteness beyond the noun phrase -- 2 Simple definites and indefinites -- 2.1 Definiteness and indefiniteness marking -- 2.1.1 The occurrence of articles in languages -- 2.1.2 The distribution of definites and indefinites -- 2.2 Definites: semantic content and behaviour -- 2.2.1 Optional definite articles -- 2.2.2 Anaphoric articles -- 2.2.3 Deictic distinctions -- 2.2.4 Definite and specific -- 2.2.5 Nominalizing and other functions -- 2.3 Definite article types -- 2.3.1 Free-form articles -- 2.3.1.1 Structural position -- 2.3.1.2 Some characteristics -- 2.3.2 Bound articles -- 2.3.3 Phrasal clitics -- 2.3.4 Mixed systems and double determination -- 2.3.5 Definite adjectives -- 2.4 Other ways of expressing definiteness -- 2.4.1 Adpositional marking -- 2.4.2 Agreement -- 2.4.3 Pronominal marking -- 2.4.4 Word order -- 2.5 Indefinites -- 2.5.1 Indefinite article -- 2.5.2 Quasi-indefinite article -- 2.5.3 Types of cardinal article -- 2.5.4 Partitive indefinites -- 2.5.5 Bare indefinites -- 2.6 General remarks -- 3 Complex definites and indefinites -- 3.1 Demonstratives -- 3.1.1 Deictic distinctions -- 3.1.2 Non-deictic distinctions
- 3.1.3 Forms and positions -- 3.2 Proper nouns -- 3.3 Possessives -- 3.3.1 Pronoun and full noun phrase possessives -- 3.3.2 Affixal possessives -- 3.3.3 Alienable and inalienable -- 3.3.4 Possessives and definiteness -- 3.4 Personal pronouns -- 3.4.1 Semantic and grammatical content -- 3.4.2 Strong, weak and null pronouns -- 3.4.3 Personal determiners -- 3.4.4 Definite and demonstrative personal forms -- 3.5 Universals and other quantifiers -- 3.6 Indefinites -- 3.6.1 Full noun phrases -- 3.6.2 Pronouns -- 3.7 Indefinite demonstratives -- 3.8 Vocatives -- 3.9 Non-configurational languages -- 4 Some semantic and pragmatic distinctions -- 4.1 One definiteness or several? -- 4.1.1 Identifiability and inclusiveness -- 4.1.2 Anaphoric and non-anaphoric definites -- 4.1.3 "Deictic" and non-"deictic" definites -- 4.2 Specificity and referentiality -- 4.2.1 Opacity and scope ambiguities -- 4.2.2 Transparent contexts -- 4.2.3 A unified account of specificity? -- 4.3 Generics -- 4.3.1 Generics in English -- 4.3.2 Singular generics -- 4.3.3 Non-singular generics -- 4.3.4 Generics and proper nouns -- 4.4 Concluding comments -- 5 Interaction with other grammatical phenomena -- 5.1 Direct object marking -- 5.1.1 Differential case marking -- 5.1.2 Definite object marking -- 5.1.3 Oblique direct objects -- 5.2 Verb agreement -- 5.2.1 Direct object agreement -- 5.2.2 Indirect object agreement -- 5.2.3 Subject agreement -- 5.3 Definiteness and animacy -- 5.4 Articles and nominal feature marking -- 5.5 Null and implicit noun phrases -- 5.5.1 Pro -- 5.5.2 Traces -- 5.5.3 PRO -- 5.5.4 Implicit arguments -- 5.6 Classifiers -- 5.7 Concluding point -- 6 Definiteness effects -- 6.1 Discourse structure -- 6.1.1 The organization of information -- 6.1.2 Information structure and definiteness -- 6.2 Existential sentences -- 6.2.1 The phenomenon -- 6.2.2 Explanatory accounts
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