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From Utterances to Speech Acts

By Mikhail Kissine

"Kissine offers a new theory of speech acts which is philosophically sophisticated and builds on work in cognitive science, formal semantics, and linguistic typology. This highly readable, brilliant essay is a major contribution to the field."

--François Recanati, Institut Jean-Nicod



Query Details


Query Subject:   Article Typology
Author:   Gavin Austin
Submitter Email:  click here to access email

Linguistic LingField(s):  Typology

Query:   Dear colleagues,

I have a query relating to article typology. I’m interested in finding
examples of the following patterns if they are known to exist. (Sinhala is
an example of (1), but I’d like to find a couple more examples.)

(1) singular: definite article: NO; indefinite article: YES
plural: definite article: NO; indefinite article: NO

(2) singular: definite article: YES; indefinite article: NO
plural: definite article: NO; indefinite article: NO

(3) singular: definite article: NO; indefinite article: NO
plural: definite article: YES; indefinite article: NO

(4) singular: definite article: NO; indefinite article: NO
plural: definite article: NO; indefinite article: YES

(5) singular: definite article: NO; indefinite article: YES
plural: definite article: NO; indefinite article: YES

I’d be very grateful for any help with this.

Best,

Gavin Austin
U of New England
LL Issue: 19.522
Date posted: 13-Feb-2008



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