Determiners : universals and variation /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ghomeshi, Jila, Paul, Ileana, Wiltschko, Martina
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., [2009]
Series:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 147.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Determiners: universals and variation / Jila Ghomeshi, Ileana Paul & Martina Wiltschko
  • Part I. The features of determiners. What's in a determiner and how did it get there? / Martina Wiltschko
  • The proper D connection / Jila Ghomeshi & Diane Massam
  • Argumenthood, pronouns, and nominal feature geometry / Elizabeth Cowper & Daniel Currie Hall
  • Part II. The function of determiners. From local blocking to Cyclic Agree: the role and meaning of determiners in the history of French / Eric Mathieu
  • Kinds of predicates and reference to kinds in Hebrew / Keren Tonciulescu
  • Part III. Definiteness and beyond. The semantic core of determiners: evidence from Sk̲wx̲wú7mesh / Carrie Gillon
  • On the presence versus absence of determiners in Malagasy / Ileana Paul.