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Nominal Determination
Typology, context constraints, and historical emergence
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).
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 89] 2007. viii, 370 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 1 July 2008
Published online on 1 July 2008
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Table of Contents
- Preface | pp. vii–7
- IntroductionWerner Abraham, Elisabeth Stark and Elisabeth Leiss | pp. 1–20
- Part 1. Synchrony – and its implications for diachrony
- Discourse binding: DP and pronouns in German, Dutch, and EnglishWerner Abraham | pp. 21–47
- Gender, number, and indefinite articles: About the 'typological inconsistency' of ItalianElisabeth Stark | pp. 49–71
- Covert patterns of definiteness/indefiniteness and aspectuality in Old Icelandic, Gothic, and Old High GermanElisabeth Leiss | pp. 73–102
- The definite article in Indo-European: Emergence of a new grammatical category?Brigitte L.M. Bauer | pp. 103–139
- 'No' changes: On the history of German indefinite determiners in the scope of negationAgnes Jäger | pp. 141–170
- Part 2. Synchrony – ontological and typological characteristics
- The functional range of bare singular count nouns in EnglishLaurel Smith Stvan | pp. 171–187
- The definite article in non-specific object noun phrases: Comparing French and ItalianTanja Kupisch and Christian Koops | pp. 189–213
- Early functions of definite determiners and DPs in German first language acquisitionDagmar Bittner | pp. 215–240
- Part 3. Diachrony – universally unified characteristics?
- The discourse-functional crystallization of DP from the original demonstrativeWerner Abraham | pp. 241–256
- Determinerless noun phrases in Old Romance passivesAnna Bartra-Kaufman | pp. 257–286
- On the structure and development of nominal phrases in NorwegianTerje Lohndal | pp. 287–310
- The emergence of DP from a perspective of ontogeny and phylogeny: Correlation between DP, TP and aspect in Old English and first language acquisitionFuyo Osawa | pp. 311–337
- Demonstratives and possessives: From Old English to present-day EnglishJohanna L. Wood | pp. 339–361
- Index | pp. 363–369
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