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| Title: | On the definiteness and specificity of Scandinavian pronoun demonstratives |
| Author: | Tania E. Strahan |
| Email: | click here to access email |
| Homepage: | http://www.strahan.id.au |
| Institution: | Hugvísindadeild Háskóla Islands |
| Linguistic Field: | Morphology; Syntax |
| Abstract: | Pronouns with a demonstrative function appear in most of the Scandinavian languages in phrases like ‘Look at that man’. Despite the Scandinavian languages varying in phrase-internal morphosyntactic definiteness agreement requirements generally, the pronoun demonstrative appears universally with a definite noun (phrase). This is accounted for within a Lexical-Functional Grammar framework, where the pronoun demonstrative is treated as carrying the feature [specific = +], and the definite noun (phrase) is the morphosyntactic realisation of underlying specificity also. In addition, there is variation as to whether the pronoun demonstratives occur as a specifier within the NP, or as the head of its own DP, taking an NP object. |
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This article appears in Nordic Journal of Linguistics Vol. 31, Issue 2, which you can read on Cambridge's site or on LINGUIST . |
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