Date: 24-Sep-2007 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: Nominal Determination: Stark, Leiss, Abraham (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Nominal Determination
Subtitle: Typology, context constraints, and historical emergence
Series Title: Studies in Language Companion Series 89
Published: 2007
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Editor: Elisabeth Stark
Editor: Elisabeth Leiss
Editor: Werner Abraham
Hardback: ISBN: 9027230994 9789027230997 Pages: 381 Price: U.S. $ 162.00
Abstract:
The following theoretical-empirical points on the DP are discussed: Article and its referential-anaphoric properties by Abraham (Determiners in Centering Theory); Bartra (On bare NPs in Old Spanish and Catalan); identification of all functional nominal categories by Stvan (Bare singular count nouns); Kupisch & Koops (Specificity and negation); Jäger (History of German indefinite determiners); typological comparison of the interaction of nominal and verbal determination by Abraham (Discourse-functional crystallization of the original demonstrative); Leiss (Covert (in)definiteness and aspect in Old Icelandic, Gothic, Old High German); Lohndal (Double definiteness during Old Norse); emergence of DP in ontogeny/phylogeny by Osawa (DP, TP and aspect in Old English and L1 acquisition); Bittner (Early functions of definites in L1 acquisition); Wood (Demonstratives and possessives emergent from Old English); Bauer ((in)definite articles in Indo-European) and Stark (Variation in nominal indefiniteness in Romance).
Linguistic Field(s):
Historical Linguistics
Language Acquisition
Linguistic Theories
Typology