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This volume brings together scholars of diverse theoretical persuasions who all share an interest in capturing the role that nominal determination and reference assignment play in the complicated interplay between thought, language and communication. The articles can be divided roughly into five main areas of concern: the conceptual level of determination; the emergence and function of articles; their semantic contribution to nominal interpretation; the morphology and syntax of determiners; and the interplay and contrasts between articles, demonstratives and possessives. Thus, linguistic and philosophical issues in the subject field of nominal determination are addressed at all interface levels between morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. This volume shows that different theoretical frameworks may be brought fruitfully together in the effort to formulate new analyses of well-known problems, but also to raise new questions and point to new areas which may prove interesting topics for future research both in functional and formal paradigms.
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This book is satisfying in that it offers a focused treatment of the very basic and important linguistic feature of nominal determination, which encompasses definite and indefinite articles, possessives, demonstratives, quantifiers,numerals, adjectives, nouns and their phrasal projections, and discourse management, as pointed out in the introduction...if you are interested in topics like definite and indefinite articles,generic plurals, and linguistic number, you are bound to find something in this volume that rewards you for whatever time you invest in it.
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Alex Klinge
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This is a volume which brings together scholars of diverse theoretical persuasions who all share an interest in capturing the role that determination plays in nominals. There is a long tradition of exploring the role of determination in reference assignment and the interplay of determination with quantification. One of the primary functions of determination is to guide reference assignment, and in this way determination plays a central role in providing a link between thought, language, communication, and the world. The diversity of theoretical persuasions represented reflects the observation that different theoretical frameworks may be brought fruitfully together by a shared interest in research questions.
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Determiners and definiteness: Functional semantics and structural differentiation
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Peter Harder
Harder, Peter
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Harder
University of Copenhagen
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Both functional and formal approaches frequently suggest that structural and semantic categories ultimately match up (possibly even universally). They arrive at this result, however, via different descriptive strategies: most functionbased approaches set up structures primarily based on semantic/functional description, subsequently looking for distributional confirmation. Formal descriptions, on the other hand, primarily focus on distributional patterns, but often aim to show that these correspond to semantic distinctions. In contrast, I try to show that the determiner category comprises heterogeneous elements whose shared function must be understood as a result of a function-based structural pattern imposed top-down (partially arbitrary, partially motivated), which carves out a specific slot in the complex noun phrase for the basic ‘grounding’ choice between definite and indefinite reference.
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Articles, definite and indefinite
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Michael Herslund
Herslund, Michael
Michael
Herslund
Copenhagen Business School
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In the Indo-European languages where a definite article exists, it is historically derived from a demonstrative pronoun. The hypothesis of this paper is that the origin of the definite article is the creation of noun phrase structure by the subordination of a noun to a demonstrative pronoun. This process is described for the Romance languages and Danish. In languages where an indefinite article exists, it is historically derived from the numeral ‘one’. This origin of the indefinite article points out two possible directions for its further evolution: it can continue as a quantifier or it can become a classifier. The quantifier road is illustrated by the plural of the indefinite article in Old French and Spanish, the classifier use by the two indefinite articles of Modern French. Definite and indefinite articles thus have different functions and values: definite articles are pronominal heads, indefinite articles are quantifiers or classifiers.
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Typological correlations in nominal determination in Romance
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Elisabeth Stark
Stark, Elisabeth
Elisabeth
Stark
University of Zurich
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This paper discusses divergences and significant typological correlations found in the family of Romance languages, specifically French, Italian and Spanish. It proposes to reinterpret the complex system of indefinite nominal determination in two central Romance languages, viz. French and Italian, which both feature an indefinite article and a partitive article, as a device of nominal classification in a broad sense, marking the conceptually important distinction between a single, contoured referent and a non-contoured substance. It is argued that this classification system arose when nominal declension in Latin, which differentiated these two referentially highly relevant cognitive concepts via overt gender and number affixes, was partially or completely lost. In contrast to modern central Romance languages, which require obligatory (indefinite) determination in almost every argument position, modern peripheral Romance languages like Romanian or Spanish, possessing a simpler and more flexible system of determination, developed a system of differential object marking in order to unambiguously indicate contoured and highly individualized referents in direct object position.
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A stranger in the house: The French article <i>de</i>
A
stranger in the house: The French article <i>de</i>
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Marc Wilmet
Wilmet, Marc
Marc
Wilmet
Université Libre de Bruxelles
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The present contribution argues in favour of the recognition of an article de in French which occurs either alone or with another article. The approach adopted calls for an historical recapitulation, i.e. “where does the article come from?”, a theoretical investigation, i.e. “what is an article?”, and the identification of an inventory, i.e. “what qualifies as an article?”. Finally, a table is provided which summarizes the articles in terms of three pairs of oppositions, viz. part vs. whole, mass vs. count, continuous vs. discontinuous. The article de is definable as a partitive article, sometimes mass or count, continuous or discontinuous (where the form is <i>de</i>), sometimes continuous mass (where the form is <i>du</i>, <i>de la</i>), sometimes discontinuous mass or count (where the form is <i>des</i>), sometimes continuous mass and count (where the form is <i>d’un</i>, <i>d’une</i>).
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Determination in endocentric and exocentric languages: With evidence primarily from Danish and Italian
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A01
Iørn Korzen
Korzen, Iørn
Iørn
Korzen
Copenhagen Business School
01
In this paper it is argued that there is a correlation between lexico-semantic specificity and a tendency towards textual “promotion” of nouns (and, also, of verbs). Textually promoted nouns serve as “instantiators” of nominal “occurrences”, i.e. first, second or third order entities, and in order for a noun to instantiate an entity in a text, a coding of the feature [± identifiable to the hearer] is needed (possibly along with other features as well). In other words: generally, the noun must appear with a determiner. In fact, there is a general tendency for Romance nouns (which are lexically more specific than Germanic ones) to appear with a determiner, whereas Germanic nouns much more often appear undetermined and, possibly, incorporated in verbal or prepositional structures. The mentioned correlation hypothesis is substantiated with evidence mainly from Danish and Italian.
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Bare predicate nominals in Romance languages
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Roberto Zamparelli
Zamparelli, Roberto
Roberto
Zamparelli
Università di Trento
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This paper offers an analysis for the possible absence of determiners in singular predicate nominals that refer to <i>professions, roles </i>and certain relations (e.g.<i>dottore, capo-mafia, figlio di Luigi </i>in Italian). Building on the theory of noun phrases in Heycock and Zamparelli (2005), it argues that while singular count nouns are normally licensed by the presence of a determiner, nouns that form bare predicates have an impoverished set of features (in particular, no set value for gender), and can be licensed by entering in an agreement relation with the subject of the predication. Semantically, the article distinguishes three subclasses of bare predicates, and argues that role / profession nouns ambiguously refer either to sets of individuals or to the activities which can identify these individuals.
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Definiteness effect and the role of the coda in existential constructions
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Manuel Leonetti
Leonetti, Manuel
Manuel
Leonetti
Universidad de Alcalá
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The Definiteness Effect (DE) in existential contexts appears as a robust constraint in some languages (Spanish) while it seems to be absent in others (Italian, Catalan). However, a closer inspection of Italian and Catalan data shows that the DE has some presence in those languages as well, when the coda of the existential is explicit and occurs inside the VP. This paper investigates the effects produced by the coda on definiteness, and connects such effects to other constraints on the licensing of postverbal subjects, all ultimately tied to nformation structure. I suggest that a classbetween definiteness and Focus structure is at the origin of the DE, when definite expressions resist insertion into pure thetic or Broad Focus sentences.
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Determination of N2 modifiers in Spanish nominal syntagmatic compounds
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A01
Henrik Høeg Müller
Høeg Müller, Henrik
Henrik
Høeg Müller
Copenhagen Business School
01
To many informants the semantic difference between the following two types of nominal syntagmatic compounds (NSCs) in Spanish seems almost undetectable or maybe even non-existent.<br />a. <i>Crisis de la energía </i>(energy crisis), <i>crisis del petróleo </i>(oil crisis), <i>puesta del sol</i><br />(sun set)<br />[internal structure: N1prep. def.N2]<br />b. <i>Fuente de energía </i>(energy source), <i>pozo de petróleo </i>(oil well) <i>día de sol </i>(day<br />of sun)<br />[internal structure: N1 prep. ØN2]<br />However, I will claim that the two structure types are far from being synonymous. A fundamental assumption in the article is that conceptualisation of basic entity types as either heterogeneous, delimited and internally structured (bounded) or homogeneous, amorphous and without delimitation or internal structure (unbounded) interacts with the grammatical determiner system in attributing interpretational values to NSCs. The point of departure is that the definite article attributes to N2 either a referential reading or a prototype reading, while the zero determiner brings about an interpretation as either a mass or a concept. In the last part of the article it is argued that the semantic effects of the N2 configuration are essentially different from genericity. Nominals in existential or generic expressions denote, or are sometimes even said to <i>refer to</i>, a class or type of objects, whereas N2 gives access to characteristic properties of the entity type.
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Reference to individuals, person, and the variety of mapping parameters
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Giuseppe Longobardi
Longobardi, Giuseppe
Giuseppe
Longobardi
Università di Trieste
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The paper addresses two related questions: whether the principle that nominal arguments must be projections of D, apparently holding in many Romance languages, holds in English and in other languages as well; and why such a principle should exist at all. The answer empirically suggested to the first question is that the principle does hold in English, contrary to Chierchia (1998) and supporting the N-movement approach to the nominal Romance-Germanic parametrization proposed by Longobardi (1996), but that certain other languages, specifically Japanese, are likely to exhibit nominal arguments without D, as expected in Chierchia’s (1998) framework. Following the restrictive approach to phrase structure proposed by Chomsky (1995, ch 4.), the second question will be addressed by identifying D with the Person head and by arguing that the latter feature is crucial to allow type-shifting from property- to individual-denotation. Under a minimalist theory of parameter formats, it will be argued that all the three possible polymorphic realizations of the feature Person admitted by such a theory are crosslinguistically instantiated, precisely by Japanese, English, and Italian.
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English <i>th</i>- forms
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Judy B. Bernstein
Bernstein, Judy B.
Judy B.
Bernstein
William Paterson University
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This paper develops the idea that English words like <i>the</i>, <i>they</i>, <i>this</i>, and existential<i>there </i>share an initial <i>th- </i>morpheme, which is identified as a 3rd person marker unspecified for number and gender. Also developed is the proposal that person is a property of D (head of the functional projection “Determiner Phrase”). Not adopted is the idea that definiteness or deixis is inherently encoded in D, although the proposal is compatible with an approach that takes these features to be derivationally associated with D. The proposed analysis therefore departs from that of Lyons (1999), who argues that the features person and definiteness are conflated and simultaneously associated with D.
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Stating the case for <i>þ</i>- root and <i>hw</i>- root determiners
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A01
Alex Klinge
Klinge, Alex
Alex
Klinge
Copenhagen Business School
01
In this article I will show that the existence of coherent classes of determiners based on pan-Germanic <i>þ</i>- and <i>hw</i>- roots, such as English ‘this’ and ‘which’ and German ‘diese’ and ‘welche’, make it necessary to reanalyse the syntactic classes and paradigmatic contrasts in the functional domain of Germanic DPs. It will be argued that the two þ- and hw- morphemes contain procedural semantics which encodes two contrasting ways that a referent may be identified for an index in a propositional form. I will focus on English and German, but reference will also be made to Danish.<br />As a first step it will be argued that there is no coherent syntactic class of articles. Then I will draw on etymological and comparative data, and on morphological and distributional facts to show that the two morphemes have been remarkably resilient across Germanic languages for more than a thousand years. Finally, I will anchor their resilience in their semantic and pragmatic raison d’être.
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On certain differences between noun phrases and clauses
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A01
Naoki Fukui
Fukui, Naoki
Naoki
Fukui
Sophia University
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Mihoko Zushi
Zushi, Mihoko
Mihoko
Zushi
Kanagawa University
01
Along with the noted similarities that have prompted much important study in the development of the theory of phrase structure and movement, nouns and verbs (and their projections) exhibit remarkable differences. These differences have often been neglected or otherwise discredited in favor of the similarities that have been a target for novel proposals regarding the internal structures of noun phrases and clauses. This paper tries to pin down the locus of the differences, and identifies the fundamental difference between noun phrases and clauses as the fact that noun phrases (nominal expressions) have a singlelayered internal structure having a single phase and are completed (or “closed”) in terms of licensing of internal elements, whereas clauses have a double-layered internal structure with two internal phases one of which (<i>v</i>P) is not completed (or “open”) in the sense that outside probes (namely, C and C-T) play a role in determining the inner workings of <i>v</i>P. The paper argues in a preliminary form that from this fundamental difference (which itself seems to be rooted in considerations of the C-I interface, i.e., clauses are propositions while nominal expressions are typically arguments), various syntactic differences between the two classes of categories, particularly those with respect to A-movement and A’-movement, naturally follow.
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308
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Determination, nominalisation and conceptual processing
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A01
Helle Dam Jensen
Dam Jensen, Helle
Helle
Dam Jensen
Aarhus School of Business
01
The purpose of this article is to account for the interpretive process initiated by nominalisations in Spanish. I shall start from the assumption that both morphological nominalisations and syntactic nominalisations, in which a determiner merges with either an infinitive phrase or a complementizer phrase, generate a complex interpretive process due to a clash between an interpretation in terms of ‘entity’, on the one hand, and an interpretation as ‘situation’, on the other. I shall substantiate this claim by analysing nominalised infinitive phrases, nominalised complementizer phrases and morphological nominalisations.
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The semantics and pragmatics of the possessive determiner
The
semantics and pragmatics of the possessive determiner
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Georges Kleiber
Kleiber, Georges
Georges
Kleiber
Université Marc Bloch
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“This article deals with the semantics and pragmatics of the possessive adjective in French. As a point of departure we do not base this article, as it is traditionally done, on the general semantic category of ‘possession’, but instead we take our point of departure in the competition of the possessive determiner and the definite article in the context of associative anaphors. This article shows firstly, that the possessive adjective requires an <i>a priori </i>dependant asymmetry between the two entities E1 and E2 which are implied by a possessive description, secondly, that this asymmetry is satisfied either by the ontological status of the entities involved; by the semantico-lexical relation between the Ns of the entities involved which indicate an <i>a priori </i>subordination; or by a discursive relation between two specific groups or classes of referents established by the linguistic or situational context.”
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Reference, determiners and descriptive content
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Thorstein Fretheim
Fretheim, Thorstein
Thorstein
Fretheim
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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Nana Aba Appiah Amfo
Amfo, Nana Aba Appiah
Nana Aba Appiah
Amfo
University of Ghana
01
This paper starts out arguing that Gundel et al.’s claim that whatever a demonstrative can do, a definite article can do equally well is in need of revision. Then, against the tenor of Gundel et al.’s Givenness Hierarchy model, we postulate a univocal lexical meaning for determiners and corresponding pronouns in Norwegian, but we also show that what appears to be a conflation of definite article and distal demonstrative determiner in certain syntactic environments in Norwegian is two distinct linguistic phenomena in spoken Norwegian, and finally we argue that segmentally identical determiners and pronouns in the Niger-Congo language Akan are semantically distinct lexemes.
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This volume brings together scholars of diverse theoretical persuasions who all share an interest in capturing the role that nominal determination and reference assignment play in the complicated interplay between thought, language and communication. The articles can be divided roughly into five main areas of concern: the conceptual level of determination; the emergence and function of articles; their semantic contribution to nominal interpretation; the morphology and syntax of determiners; and the interplay and contrasts between articles, demonstratives and possessives. Thus, linguistic and philosophical issues in the subject field of nominal determination are addressed at all interface levels between morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. This volume shows that different theoretical frameworks may be brought fruitfully together in the effort to formulate new analyses of well-known problems, but also to raise new questions and point to new areas which may prove interesting topics for future research both in functional and formal paradigms.
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This book is satisfying in that it offers a focused treatment of the very basic and important linguistic feature of nominal determination, which encompasses definite and indefinite articles, possessives, demonstratives, quantifiers,numerals, adjectives, nouns and their phrasal projections, and discourse management, as pointed out in the introduction...if you are interested in topics like definite and indefinite articles,generic plurals, and linguistic number, you are bound to find something in this volume that rewards you for whatever time you invest in it.
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Alex Klinge
Klinge, Alex
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This is a volume which brings together scholars of diverse theoretical persuasions who all share an interest in capturing the role that determination plays in nominals. There is a long tradition of exploring the role of determination in reference assignment and the interplay of determination with quantification. One of the primary functions of determination is to guide reference assignment, and in this way determination plays a central role in providing a link between thought, language, communication, and the world. The diversity of theoretical persuasions represented reflects the observation that different theoretical frameworks may be brought fruitfully together by a shared interest in research questions.
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Determiners and definiteness: Functional semantics and structural differentiation
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Peter Harder
Harder, Peter
Peter
Harder
University of Copenhagen
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Both functional and formal approaches frequently suggest that structural and semantic categories ultimately match up (possibly even universally). They arrive at this result, however, via different descriptive strategies: most functionbased approaches set up structures primarily based on semantic/functional description, subsequently looking for distributional confirmation. Formal descriptions, on the other hand, primarily focus on distributional patterns, but often aim to show that these correspond to semantic distinctions. In contrast, I try to show that the determiner category comprises heterogeneous elements whose shared function must be understood as a result of a function-based structural pattern imposed top-down (partially arbitrary, partially motivated), which carves out a specific slot in the complex noun phrase for the basic ‘grounding’ choice between definite and indefinite reference.
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Articles, definite and indefinite
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Michael Herslund
Herslund, Michael
Michael
Herslund
Copenhagen Business School
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In the Indo-European languages where a definite article exists, it is historically derived from a demonstrative pronoun. The hypothesis of this paper is that the origin of the definite article is the creation of noun phrase structure by the subordination of a noun to a demonstrative pronoun. This process is described for the Romance languages and Danish. In languages where an indefinite article exists, it is historically derived from the numeral ‘one’. This origin of the indefinite article points out two possible directions for its further evolution: it can continue as a quantifier or it can become a classifier. The quantifier road is illustrated by the plural of the indefinite article in Old French and Spanish, the classifier use by the two indefinite articles of Modern French. Definite and indefinite articles thus have different functions and values: definite articles are pronominal heads, indefinite articles are quantifiers or classifiers.
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Typological correlations in nominal determination in Romance
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Elisabeth Stark
Stark, Elisabeth
Elisabeth
Stark
University of Zurich
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This paper discusses divergences and significant typological correlations found in the family of Romance languages, specifically French, Italian and Spanish. It proposes to reinterpret the complex system of indefinite nominal determination in two central Romance languages, viz. French and Italian, which both feature an indefinite article and a partitive article, as a device of nominal classification in a broad sense, marking the conceptually important distinction between a single, contoured referent and a non-contoured substance. It is argued that this classification system arose when nominal declension in Latin, which differentiated these two referentially highly relevant cognitive concepts via overt gender and number affixes, was partially or completely lost. In contrast to modern central Romance languages, which require obligatory (indefinite) determination in almost every argument position, modern peripheral Romance languages like Romanian or Spanish, possessing a simpler and more flexible system of determination, developed a system of differential object marking in order to unambiguously indicate contoured and highly individualized referents in direct object position.
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A stranger in the house: The French article <i>de</i>
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stranger in the house: The French article <i>de</i>
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Marc Wilmet
Wilmet, Marc
Marc
Wilmet
Université Libre de Bruxelles
01
The present contribution argues in favour of the recognition of an article de in French which occurs either alone or with another article. The approach adopted calls for an historical recapitulation, i.e. “where does the article come from?”, a theoretical investigation, i.e. “what is an article?”, and the identification of an inventory, i.e. “what qualifies as an article?”. Finally, a table is provided which summarizes the articles in terms of three pairs of oppositions, viz. part vs. whole, mass vs. count, continuous vs. discontinuous. The article de is definable as a partitive article, sometimes mass or count, continuous or discontinuous (where the form is <i>de</i>), sometimes continuous mass (where the form is <i>du</i>, <i>de la</i>), sometimes discontinuous mass or count (where the form is <i>des</i>), sometimes continuous mass and count (where the form is <i>d’un</i>, <i>d’une</i>).
10
01
JB code
slcs.99.07kor
79
99
21
Article
8
01
Determination in endocentric and exocentric languages: With evidence primarily from Danish and Italian
1
A01
Iørn Korzen
Korzen, Iørn
Iørn
Korzen
Copenhagen Business School
01
In this paper it is argued that there is a correlation between lexico-semantic specificity and a tendency towards textual “promotion” of nouns (and, also, of verbs). Textually promoted nouns serve as “instantiators” of nominal “occurrences”, i.e. first, second or third order entities, and in order for a noun to instantiate an entity in a text, a coding of the feature [± identifiable to the hearer] is needed (possibly along with other features as well). In other words: generally, the noun must appear with a determiner. In fact, there is a general tendency for Romance nouns (which are lexically more specific than Germanic ones) to appear with a determiner, whereas Germanic nouns much more often appear undetermined and, possibly, incorporated in verbal or prepositional structures. The mentioned correlation hypothesis is substantiated with evidence mainly from Danish and Italian.
10
01
JB code
slcs.99.08zam
101
130
30
Article
9
01
Bare predicate nominals in Romance languages
1
A01
Roberto Zamparelli
Zamparelli, Roberto
Roberto
Zamparelli
Università di Trento
01
This paper offers an analysis for the possible absence of determiners in singular predicate nominals that refer to <i>professions, roles </i>and certain relations (e.g.<i>dottore, capo-mafia, figlio di Luigi </i>in Italian). Building on the theory of noun phrases in Heycock and Zamparelli (2005), it argues that while singular count nouns are normally licensed by the presence of a determiner, nouns that form bare predicates have an impoverished set of features (in particular, no set value for gender), and can be licensed by entering in an agreement relation with the subject of the predication. Semantically, the article distinguishes three subclasses of bare predicates, and argues that role / profession nouns ambiguously refer either to sets of individuals or to the activities which can identify these individuals.
10
01
JB code
slcs.99.09leo
131
162
32
Article
10
01
Definiteness effect and the role of the coda in existential constructions
1
A01
Manuel Leonetti
Leonetti, Manuel
Manuel
Leonetti
Universidad de Alcalá
01
The Definiteness Effect (DE) in existential contexts appears as a robust constraint in some languages (Spanish) while it seems to be absent in others (Italian, Catalan). However, a closer inspection of Italian and Catalan data shows that the DE has some presence in those languages as well, when the coda of the existential is explicit and occurs inside the VP. This paper investigates the effects produced by the coda on definiteness, and connects such effects to other constraints on the licensing of postverbal subjects, all ultimately tied to nformation structure. I suggest that a classbetween definiteness and Focus structure is at the origin of the DE, when definite expressions resist insertion into pure thetic or Broad Focus sentences.
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01
JB code
slcs.99.10hoe
163
188
26
Article
11
01
Determination of N2 modifiers in Spanish nominal syntagmatic compounds
1
A01
Henrik Høeg Müller
Høeg Müller, Henrik
Henrik
Høeg Müller
Copenhagen Business School
01
To many informants the semantic difference between the following two types of nominal syntagmatic compounds (NSCs) in Spanish seems almost undetectable or maybe even non-existent.<br />a. <i>Crisis de la energía </i>(energy crisis), <i>crisis del petróleo </i>(oil crisis), <i>puesta del sol</i><br />(sun set)<br />[internal structure: N1prep. def.N2]<br />b. <i>Fuente de energía </i>(energy source), <i>pozo de petróleo </i>(oil well) <i>día de sol </i>(day<br />of sun)<br />[internal structure: N1 prep. ØN2]<br />However, I will claim that the two structure types are far from being synonymous. A fundamental assumption in the article is that conceptualisation of basic entity types as either heterogeneous, delimited and internally structured (bounded) or homogeneous, amorphous and without delimitation or internal structure (unbounded) interacts with the grammatical determiner system in attributing interpretational values to NSCs. The point of departure is that the definite article attributes to N2 either a referential reading or a prototype reading, while the zero determiner brings about an interpretation as either a mass or a concept. In the last part of the article it is argued that the semantic effects of the N2 configuration are essentially different from genericity. Nominals in existential or generic expressions denote, or are sometimes even said to <i>refer to</i>, a class or type of objects, whereas N2 gives access to characteristic properties of the entity type.
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01
JB code
slcs.99.11lon
189
211
23
Article
12
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Reference to individuals, person, and the variety of mapping parameters
1
A01
Giuseppe Longobardi
Longobardi, Giuseppe
Giuseppe
Longobardi
Università di Trieste
01
The paper addresses two related questions: whether the principle that nominal arguments must be projections of D, apparently holding in many Romance languages, holds in English and in other languages as well; and why such a principle should exist at all. The answer empirically suggested to the first question is that the principle does hold in English, contrary to Chierchia (1998) and supporting the N-movement approach to the nominal Romance-Germanic parametrization proposed by Longobardi (1996), but that certain other languages, specifically Japanese, are likely to exhibit nominal arguments without D, as expected in Chierchia’s (1998) framework. Following the restrictive approach to phrase structure proposed by Chomsky (1995, ch 4.), the second question will be addressed by identifying D with the Person head and by arguing that the latter feature is crucial to allow type-shifting from property- to individual-denotation. Under a minimalist theory of parameter formats, it will be argued that all the three possible polymorphic realizations of the feature Person admitted by such a theory are crosslinguistically instantiated, precisely by Japanese, English, and Italian.
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01
JB code
slcs.99.12ber
213
232
20
Article
13
01
English <i>th</i>- forms
1
A01
Judy B. Bernstein
Bernstein, Judy B.
Judy B.
Bernstein
William Paterson University
01
This paper develops the idea that English words like <i>the</i>, <i>they</i>, <i>this</i>, and existential<i>there </i>share an initial <i>th- </i>morpheme, which is identified as a 3rd person marker unspecified for number and gender. Also developed is the proposal that person is a property of D (head of the functional projection “Determiner Phrase”). Not adopted is the idea that definiteness or deixis is inherently encoded in D, although the proposal is compatible with an approach that takes these features to be derivationally associated with D. The proposed analysis therefore departs from that of Lyons (1999), who argues that the features person and definiteness are conflated and simultaneously associated with D.
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01
JB code
slcs.99.13kli
233
263
31
Article
14
01
Stating the case for <i>þ</i>- root and <i>hw</i>- root determiners
1
A01
Alex Klinge
Klinge, Alex
Alex
Klinge
Copenhagen Business School
01
In this article I will show that the existence of coherent classes of determiners based on pan-Germanic <i>þ</i>- and <i>hw</i>- roots, such as English ‘this’ and ‘which’ and German ‘diese’ and ‘welche’, make it necessary to reanalyse the syntactic classes and paradigmatic contrasts in the functional domain of Germanic DPs. It will be argued that the two þ- and hw- morphemes contain procedural semantics which encodes two contrasting ways that a referent may be identified for an index in a propositional form. I will focus on English and German, but reference will also be made to Danish.<br />As a first step it will be argued that there is no coherent syntactic class of articles. Then I will draw on etymological and comparative data, and on morphological and distributional facts to show that the two morphemes have been remarkably resilient across Germanic languages for more than a thousand years. Finally, I will anchor their resilience in their semantic and pragmatic raison d’être.
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01
JB code
slcs.99.14fuk
265
286
22
Article
15
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On certain differences between noun phrases and clauses
1
A01
Naoki Fukui
Fukui, Naoki
Naoki
Fukui
Sophia University
2
A01
Mihoko Zushi
Zushi, Mihoko
Mihoko
Zushi
Kanagawa University
01
Along with the noted similarities that have prompted much important study in the development of the theory of phrase structure and movement, nouns and verbs (and their projections) exhibit remarkable differences. These differences have often been neglected or otherwise discredited in favor of the similarities that have been a target for novel proposals regarding the internal structures of noun phrases and clauses. This paper tries to pin down the locus of the differences, and identifies the fundamental difference between noun phrases and clauses as the fact that noun phrases (nominal expressions) have a singlelayered internal structure having a single phase and are completed (or “closed”) in terms of licensing of internal elements, whereas clauses have a double-layered internal structure with two internal phases one of which (<i>v</i>P) is not completed (or “open”) in the sense that outside probes (namely, C and C-T) play a role in determining the inner workings of <i>v</i>P. The paper argues in a preliminary form that from this fundamental difference (which itself seems to be rooted in considerations of the C-I interface, i.e., clauses are propositions while nominal expressions are typically arguments), various syntactic differences between the two classes of categories, particularly those with respect to A-movement and A’-movement, naturally follow.
10
01
JB code
slcs.99.15dam
287
308
22
Article
16
01
Determination, nominalisation and conceptual processing
1
A01
Helle Dam Jensen
Dam Jensen, Helle
Helle
Dam Jensen
Aarhus School of Business
01
The purpose of this article is to account for the interpretive process initiated by nominalisations in Spanish. I shall start from the assumption that both morphological nominalisations and syntactic nominalisations, in which a determiner merges with either an infinitive phrase or a complementizer phrase, generate a complex interpretive process due to a clash between an interpretation in terms of ‘entity’, on the one hand, and an interpretation as ‘situation’, on the other. I shall substantiate this claim by analysing nominalised infinitive phrases, nominalised complementizer phrases and morphological nominalisations.
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01
JB code
slcs.99.16kle
309
336
28
Article
17
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The semantics and pragmatics of the possessive determiner
The
semantics and pragmatics of the possessive determiner
1
A01
Georges Kleiber
Kleiber, Georges
Georges
Kleiber
Université Marc Bloch
01
“This article deals with the semantics and pragmatics of the possessive adjective in French. As a point of departure we do not base this article, as it is traditionally done, on the general semantic category of ‘possession’, but instead we take our point of departure in the competition of the possessive determiner and the definite article in the context of associative anaphors. This article shows firstly, that the possessive adjective requires an <i>a priori </i>dependant asymmetry between the two entities E1 and E2 which are implied by a possessive description, secondly, that this asymmetry is satisfied either by the ontological status of the entities involved; by the semantico-lexical relation between the Ns of the entities involved which indicate an <i>a priori </i>subordination; or by a discursive relation between two specific groups or classes of referents established by the linguistic or situational context.”
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01
JB code
slcs.99.17fre
337
364
28
Article
18
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Reference, determiners and descriptive content
1
A01
Thorstein Fretheim
Fretheim, Thorstein
Thorstein
Fretheim
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
2
A01
Nana Aba Appiah Amfo
Amfo, Nana Aba Appiah
Nana Aba Appiah
Amfo
University of Ghana
01
This paper starts out arguing that Gundel et al.’s claim that whatever a demonstrative can do, a definite article can do equally well is in need of revision. Then, against the tenor of Gundel et al.’s Givenness Hierarchy model, we postulate a univocal lexical meaning for determiners and corresponding pronouns in Norwegian, but we also show that what appears to be a conflation of definite article and distal demonstrative determiner in certain syntactic environments in Norwegian is two distinct linguistic phenomena in spoken Norwegian, and finally we argue that segmentally identical determiners and pronouns in the Niger-Congo language Akan are semantically distinct lexemes.
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01
JB code
slcs.99.19ind
365
369
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