Nominal Determination
Typology, context constraints, and historical emergence
1st Edition
Published on 23. August 2007
VIII, 370 pages
978-90-272-9210-0 (ISBN)
Description
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).
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Typology, context constraints, and historical emergence
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- Nominal Determination
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Synchrony - and its implications for diachrony
- Discourse bindingDP and pronouns in German, Dutch, and English
- Gender, number, and indefi nite articles: About the 'typological inconsistency' of Italian
- Covert patterns of definiteness/indefiniteness and aspectuality in Old Icelandic, Gothic, and Old High German
- The definite article in Indo-European: Emergence of a new grammatical category?
- 'No' changes: On the history of German indefinite determiners in the scopeof negation
- 2. Synchrony - ontological and typological characteristics
- The functional range of bare singular count nouns in English
- The definite article in non-specific direct object noun phrases: Comparing French and Italian
- Early functions of definite determiners and DPs in German first language acquisition
- 3. Diachrony - universally unifi ed characteristics?
- The discourse-functional crystallizationof the historically original demonstrative
- Determinerless noun phrases in Old Romance passives
- On the structure and development of nominal phrases in Norwegian
- The emergence of DP from a perspective of ontogeny and phylogeny: Correlation between DP, TP and aspect in Old English and first language acquisition
- Demonstratives and possessives: From Old English to present-day English
- Author and subject index
- The series Studies in Language Companion Series
