Nominal Determination
Typology, context constraints, and historical emergence
Published on 23. August 2007
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Hardback
370 pages
978-90-272-3099-7 (ISBN)
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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); Jaeger (History of German indefinite determiners); typological comparison of the interaction of nominal and verbal determination by Abraham (Discourse-functional crystallization of the or-ig-inal demonstrative); Leiss (Covert (in)definiteness and aspect in Old Icelandic, Goth-ic, 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)defin-ite articles in Indo-European) and Stark (Variation in nominal indefiniteness in Romance).
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
820 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-3099-7 (9789027230997)
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Elisabeth Stark | Elisabeth Leiss | Werner Abraham
Nominal Determination
Typology, context constraints, and historical emergence
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Content
1. Preface; 2. Introduction (by Abraham, Werner); 3. Part 1. Synchrony - and its implications for diachrony; 4. Discourse binding: DP and pronouns in German, Dutch, and English (by Abraham, Werner); 5. Gender, number, and indefinite articles: About the 'typological inconsistency' of Italian (by Stark, Elisabeth); 6. Covert patterns of definiteness/indefiniteness and aspectuality in Old Icelandic, Gothic, and Old High German (by Leiss, Elisabeth); 7. The definite article in Indo-European: Emergence of a new grammatical category? (by Bauer, Brigitte L.M.); 8. 'No' changes: On the history of German indefinite determiners in the scope of negation (by Jager, Agnes); 9. Part 2. Synchrony - ontological and typological characteristics; 10. The functional range of bare singular count nouns in English (by Stvan, Laurel Smith); 11. The definite article in non-specific object noun phrases: Comparing French and Italian (by Kupisch, Tanja); 12. Early functions of definite determiners and DPs in German first language acquisition (by Bittner, Dagmar); 13. Part 3. Diachrony - universally unified characteristics?; 14. The discourse-functional crystallization of DP from the original demonstrative (by Abraham, Werner); 15. Determinerless noun phrases in Old Romance passives (by Bartra-Kaufman, Anna); 16. On the structure and development of nominal phrases in Norwegian (by Lohndal, Terje); 17. The emergence of DP from a perspective of ontogeny and phylogeny: Correlation between DP, TP and aspect in Old English and first language acquisition (by Osawa, Fuyo); 18. Demonstratives and possessives: From Old English to present-day English (by Wood, Johanna L.); 19. Index