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Definiteness across languages
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Definiteness across languages
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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.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Definiteness across languages: An overview Ana Aguilar-Guevara, Julia Pozas Loyo & Violeta Vázquez-Rojas Maldonado
- 1 Weak vs. strong definite articles: Meaning and form across languages Florian Schwarz
- 2 Definiteness in Cuevas Mixtec Carlos Cisneros
- 3 Strong vs. weak definites: Evidence from Lithuanian adjectives Milena Šereikaitė
- 4 On (in)definite expressions in American Sign Language Ava Irani
- 5 A nascent definiteness marker in Yokot'an Maya Maurice Pico
- 6 Definiteness across languages and in L2 acquisition Bert Le Bruyn
- 7 Licensing D in classifier languages and ``numeral blocking'' David Hall
- 8 On kinds and anaphoricity in languages without definite articles Miloje Despić
- 9 Definiteness in Russian bare nominal kinds Olga Borik & M.-Teresa Espinal
- 10 A morpho-semantic account of weak definites and bare institutional singulars in English Adina Williams
- 11 Is the weak definite a generic? An experimental investigation Thaís Maíra Machado de Sá, Greg N. Carlson, Maria Luiza Cunha Lima & Michael K. Tanenhaus
- 12 `Most' vs. `the most' in languages where `the more' means `most' Elizabeth Coppock & Linnea Strand
- 13 Definiteness, partitivity, and domain restriction: A fresh look at definite reduplication Urtzi Etxeberria & Anastasia Giannakidou
- Indexes