LINGUIST List 21.2609

Tue Jun 15 2010

Books: Pragmatics/Semantics/Syntax: Le Bruyn

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        1.    Mariëtte Bonenkamp, Indefinite Articles and Beyond: Le Bruyn

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Message 1: Indefinite Articles and Beyond: Le Bruyn
Date: 15-Jun-2010
From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp <lotuu.nl>
Subject: Indefinite Articles and Beyond: Le Bruyn
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Title: Indefinite Articles and Beyond Series Title: LOT dissertation Series Published: 2010 Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
                http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Author: Bert Le Bruyn Paperback: ISBN: 9789460930225 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 22,71
Abstract:

This dissertation challenges the standard view on indefinite articles asargument markers and determiners that block bare nominal arguments. Itargues for a more fine-grained view in which articles are poor in theirsemantics but rich in their pragmatic competition with bare nominals andother determiners.

On the basis of new data, both from synchrony and diachrony, historicalsimulations and detailed analyses within formal semantics and pragmatics(especially Optimality Theory) it shows how the merits of functionalism canbe exploited without giving up the formal precision of the generative approachto linguistics. On the empirical side, it presents new analyses of Spanishunos, French des, bare partitives and the use of Dutch een and English a inpredicate position.

This dissertation will be of interest to all those working on the semantics,pragmatics and/or syntax of DPs, language evolution and/or the interactionbetween semantics and pragmatics.

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics                             Semantics                             Syntax
Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)                             English (eng)                             French (fra)                             Spanish (spa)
Written In: English (eng )

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