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1 online resource |
Series |
Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today |
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Linguistik aktuell.
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Contents |
Definite determiner spreading in Greek -- Beyond Greek : multiple definite determiners in Romance and Germanic -- When adjectival determiners abound -- Multiple determiners in indefinite noun phrases -- Multiple determiners and the structure of DPs: some conclusions |
Summary |
This book is a research monograph that investigates the crosslinguistic distribution of multiple determiners. In some languages, noun phrases permit or even seem to require a double or multiple realization of definite/indefinite markers in certain modification environments. The book develops tools that can be used to keep the different instantiations of the phenomenon apart and argues that a uniform account thereof is not desirable. On the basis of these tools, it advances the proposal that there are different types of multiple occurrences of determiners (and sub-types thereof), some are synta |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Determiners.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Historical & Comparative.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Determiners
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9789027270696 |
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9027270694 |
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1306309115 |
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9781306309110 |
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9789027255945 |
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9027255946 |
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