In:Nominal Determination: Typology, context constraints, and historical emergence
Edited by Elisabeth Stark, Elisabeth Leiss and Werner Abraham
[Studies in Language Companion Series 89] 2007
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 23 August 2007
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Table of contents
Prefacevii
Introduction
Part 1. Synchrony – and its implications for diachrony
Discourse binding: DP and pronouns in German, Dutch, and English
Gender, number, and indefinite 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 scope of negation
Part 2. Synchrony – ontological and typological characteristics
The functional range of bare singular count nouns in English
The definite article in non-specific object noun phrases: Comparing French and Italian
Early functions of definite determiners and DPs in German first language acquisition
Part 3. Diachrony – universally unified characteristics?
The discourse-functional crystallization of DP from the 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
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