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Determiners: Universals and variation (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today)

By Jila Ghomeshi , Ileana Paul , Martina Wiltschko

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year
2009
ISBN
902725530X, 9789027255303
LCC
P299.D48 D485 2009
Open Library ID
OL23614995M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2440823 bytes)
Series
Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today
Pages
257\257
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

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.

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