Definiteness Across Languages
Definiteness has been a central topic in theoretical semantics since its modern foundation. However, despite its significance, there has been surprisingly scarce research on its cross-linguistic expression. With the purpose of contributing to filling this gap, the present volume gathers thirteen stu...
| Main Authors: | , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Published: |
Language Science Press
2019
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | View this record in EBSCOhost |
| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=3461120&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: nlebk uiTerm: 3461120 longDbName: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: btl: Definiteness Across Languages aug: au: Aguilar-Guevara, Ana Loyo, Julia Pozas Maldonado, Violeta Vázquez-Rojas sertl: Studies in Diversity Linguistics isbn: 9783961101924 imageinfo: pubinfo: dt: @attributes: year: 2019 month: 01 day: 01 dtAvail: @attributes: year: 2023 month: 02 day: 10 vid: 00025 pub: Language Science Press pubContract: Language Science Press place: Berlin price: 0.01 limitsGroup: maxCheckoutDays: 1500 pda: N printPagesOffline: 100 printPagesOnline: 100 previewPages: 10000 prePubGroup: dewey: @attributes: class: 400 item: 400 lc: @attributes: class: P299.D43 D44 2019 item: P 299 .D43 D44 2019 artinfo: ui: 3461120 1135983736 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: EB doid: NL$3461120$PDF caption: PDF download: Y tig: atl: Definiteness Across Languages ptl: Definiteness Across Languages aug: au: Aguilar-Guevara, Ana Loyo, Julia Pozas Maldonado, Violeta Vázquez-Rojas su: Definiteness (Linguistics) Language arts sug: subj: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General Definiteness (Linguistics) Language arts ab: Definiteness has been a central topic in theoretical semantics since its modern foundation. However, despite its significance, there has been surprisingly scarce research on its cross-linguistic expression. With the purpose of contributing to filling this gap, the present volume gathers thirteen studies exploiting insights from formal semantics and syntax, typological and language specific studies, and, crucially, semantic fieldwork and cross-linguistic semantics, in order to address the expression and interpretation of definiteness in a diverse group of languages, most of them understudied. The papers presented in this volume aim to establish a dialogue between theory and data in order to answer the following questions: What formal strategies do natural languages employ to encode definiteness? What are the possible meanings associated to this notion across languages? Are there different types of definite reference? Which other functions (besides marking definite reference) are associated with definite descriptions? Each of the papers contained in this volume addresses at least one of these questions and, in doing so, they aim to enrich our understanding of definiteness. pubtype: eBook doctype: Book ougenre: Book language: English copyright: @attributes: flag: N copyrightText: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
|---|