Nominal Determination

Typology, context constraints, and historical emergence

Editors

Elisabeth Stark | Freie Universität Berlin

Elisabeth Leiss | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Werner Abraham | Universität Wien

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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.

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https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.89

Table of Contents

Preface | p. vii

Introduction

Werner 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 English

Werner Abraham | pp. 21–47

Gender, number, and indefinite articles: About the 'typological inconsistency' of Italian

Elisabeth Stark | pp. 49–71

Covert patterns of definiteness/indefiniteness and aspectuality in Old Icelandic, Gothic, and Old High German

Elisabeth 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 negation

Agnes Jäger | pp. 141–170

Part 2. Synchrony – ontological and typological characteristics

The functional range of bare singular count nouns in English

Laurel Smith Stvan | pp. 171–187

The definite article in non-specific object noun phrases: Comparing French and Italian

Tanja Kupisch and Christian Koops | pp. 189–213

Early functions of definite determiners and DPs in German first language acquisition

Dagmar Bittner | pp. 215–240

Part 3. Diachrony – universally unified characteristics?

The discourse-functional crystallization of DP from the original demonstrative

Werner Abraham | pp. 241–256

Determinerless noun phrases in Old Romance passives

Anna Bartra-Kaufman | pp. 257–286

On the structure and development of nominal phrases in Norwegian

Terje 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 acquisition

Fuyo Osawa | pp. 311–337

Demonstratives and possessives: From Old English to present-day English

Johanna L. Wood | pp. 339–361

Index | pp. 363–369

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