Weak Referentiality
Editors
| Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
| Utrecht University
| Utrecht University
This volume brings together studies in the domain of weak referentiality, the phenomenon that a definite or indefinite noun phrase lacks its usual referential force. Several papers investigate syntactic or semantic properties of indefinite noun phrases, such as modality, number neutrality, narrow scope, incorporation, predication, and case marking, and that in a range of languages (Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, German, Papiamentu, Russian). Other papers deal with weakly referential definite noun phrases in various languages (Basque, Dutch, English, French) involving scrambling, modification, possession, and accessibility. The papers demonstrate a range of empirical methods and theoretical models. This volume will not only be of interest to researchers and students in syntax and semantics, but also in psycholinguistics and language typology.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 219] 2014. xii, 390 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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List of contributors | pp. vii–viii
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List of abbreviations | pp. ix–xii
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Advances in weak referentialityAna Aguilar-Guevara, Bert Le Bruyn and Joost Zwarts | pp. 1–16
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Modal inferences in marked indefinites: the case of German irgend-indefinitesMaria Aloni and Angelika Port | pp. 17–44
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Epistemic and scopal properties of some indefinitesTania Ionin | pp. 45–72
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Antonymic prepositions and weak referentialityTibor Kiss and Claudia Roch | pp. 73–100
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Weak referentiality and Russian instrumental nominalsLidia Bogatyreva and M. Teresa Espinal | pp. 101–128
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Predicate nominals in Papiamentu: a comparison with Brazilian Portuguese and other languagesCristina Schmitt and Ellen-Petra Kester | pp. 129–156
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Many a pluralEric Mathieu | pp. 157–182
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Telic definites and their prepositions: French and SerbianTijana Asic and Francis Corblin | pp. 183–212
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How weak and how definite are Weak Definites?Florian Schwarz | pp. 213–235
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Modified weak definitesAna Aguilar-Guevara and Maartje Schulpen | pp. 237–264
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Functional frames in the interpretation of weak nominalsJoost Zwarts | pp. 265–286
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Unscrambling the lexical nature of weak definitesPeter de Swart and Geertje van Bergen | pp. 287–310
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Inalienable possession: the status of the definite articleBert Le Bruyn | pp. 311–334
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Basque nominals: from a system with bare nouns to a system withoutUrtzi Etxeberria | pp. 335–364
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Referential properties of definites and salience spreadingPetra B. Schumacher and Hanna Weiland-Breckle | pp. 365–388
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Index | pp. 389–390
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BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General