基本説明
This volume brings together recent work on the formal and interpretational properties of determiners across a variety of typologically and geographically unrelated languages.
Full Description
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 as a language universal by examining the language-specific syntactic and semantic properties associated with this category. This volume will appeal to researchers and students in syntax and semantics, as well as to those who have more a specific interest in determiners and noun phrases.
Contents
1. Acknowledgments; 2. Determiners: Universals and variation (by Ghomeshi, Jila); 3. Part I. The features of determiners; 4. What's in a determiner and how did it get there? (by Wiltschko, Martina); 5. The proper D connection (by Ghomeshi, Jila); 6. Argumenthood, pronouns, and nominal feature geometry (by Cowper, Elizabeth); 7. Part II. The function of determiners; 8. From local blocking to Cyclic Agree: The role and meaning of determiners in the history of French (by Mathieu, Eric); 9. Kinds of predicates and reference to kinds in Hebrew (by Tonciulescu, Keren); 10. Part III. Definiteness and beyond; 11. The semantic core of determiners: Evidence from Skwxwu7mesh (by Gillon, Carrie); 12. On the presence versus absence of determiners in Malagasy (by Paul, Ileana); 13. Index
