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1 online resource |
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Studies in diversity linguistics ; 25 |
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Studies in diversity linguistics ; 25. 2363-5568
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| Contents |
Definiteness across languages: An overview / Ana Aguilar-Guevara, Julia Pozas Loyo & Violeta Vázquez-Rojas Maldonado -- Weak vs. strong definite articles: Meaning and form across languages / Florian Schwartz -- Definiteness in Cuevas Mixtec / Carlos Cisneros -- Strong vs. weak definites: Evidence from Lithuanian adjectives / Milena Šereikaitė -- On (in)definite expressions in American Sign Language / Ava Irani -- A nascent definiteness marker in Yokot'an Maya / Maurice Pico -- Definiteness across languages and in L2 acquisition / Bert Le Bruyn -- Licensing D in classifier languages and "numeral blocking" / David Hall -- On kinds and anaphoricity in languages without definite articles / Miloje Despić -- Definiteness in Russian bare nominal kinds / Olga Borik, M. Teresa Espinal -- A morpho-semantic account of weak definites and Bare Institutional Singulars in English / Adina Williams -- Is the weak definite a generic? An experimental investigation / Thaís Maira Machado de Sá, Greg N. Carlson, Maria Luiza Cunha Lima, Michael K. Tanenhaus -- Most vs. the most in languages where the more means most / Elizabeth Coppock, Linnea Strand -- Definiteness, partitivity, and domain restriction: A fresh look at definite reduplication / Urtzi Etxeberria, Anastasia Giannakidou |
| Summary |
Definiteness has been a central topic in theoretical semantics since its modern foundation. However, despite its significance, there has been surprisingly scarce research on its cross-linguistic expression. With the purpose of contributing to filling this gap, the present volume gathers thirteen studies exploiting insights from formal semantics and syntax, typological and language specific studies, and, crucially, semantic fieldwork and cross-linguistic semantics, in order to address the expression and interpretation of definiteness in a diverse group of languages, most of them understudied. The papers presented in this volume aim to establish a dialogue between theory and data in order to answer the following questions: What formal strategies do natural languages employ to encode definiteness? What are the possible meanings associated to this notion across languages? Are there different types of definite reference? Which other functions (besides marking definite reference) are associated with definite descriptions? Each of the papers contained in this volume addresses at least one of these questions and, in doing so, they aim to enrich our understanding of definiteness |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Licence (CC BY 4.0): http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| Subject |
Definiteness (Linguistics)
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Linguistics.
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Language Arts & Disciplines -- Linguistics.
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Definiteness (Linguistics)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Aguilar-Guevara, Ana, editor
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Pozas Loyo, Julia, editor
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Vázquez-Rojas Maldonado, Violeta, editor
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| ISBN |
3961101922 |
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9783961101931 |
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3961101930 |
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9783961101924 |
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