nam a22 c 4500 cll.38/527008503 nljbp 250625034340.1 cr ||||||||||| 131216s2011 ne |||||||||||||||||eng|d 2011026798 9789027284709 (e-Book) nljbp eng nljbp nljbp PM7854.M31 447/.96982 23 CF/2ZXP bicssc LAN009000 bisacsh Guillemin, Diana author The Syntax and Semantics of a Determiner System A case study of Mauritian creole Diana Guillemin Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011 ©2011 1 online resource (xviii, 310 pp. ) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Creole Language Library 0920-9026 38 Includes bibliographical references and index. Chapter 1. Sources of Mauritian Creole -- Chapter 2. Introduction -- Chapter 3. Syntactic framework -- Chapter 4. Semantics -- Chapter 5. Early changes -- Chapter 6. The emergence of a new determiner system -- Chapter 7. The modern MC determiner system -- Chapter 8. Noun denotation and function of determiners -- Chapter 9. The syntax of the MC noun phrase -- Chapter 10. Conclusion -- Abbreviations and Symbols -- Texts (sources of examples) Within the framework of Chomsky’s Minimalism and Formal Semantics, this work documents the development of the Mauritian Creole (MC) determiner system from the mid 18th century to the present. Guillemin proposes that the loss of the French quantificational determiners, which agglutinated to nouns, resulted in the occurrence of bare nouns in argument positions. This triggered a shift in noun denotation, from predicative in French to argumental in MC, and accounts for the very different determiner systems of the creole and its lexifier. MC nouns are lexically stored as Kind denoting terms, that share some of the distributional properties of English bare plurals. New MC determiners are analyzed as ‘type shifting operators’ that shift Kinds into predicates, and serve to establish the referential properties of noun phrases. The analysis provides evidence for the universality of semantic features like Definiteness and Specificity, and the mapping of their form and function. Provided by publisher. Contact Linguistics Creole studies Generative linguistics Romance linguistics Semantics Syntax Theoretical linguistics Guillemin, Diana author Hardbound version: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011 9789027252609 DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/cll.38 JB e-Platform https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027284709