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Lexicology. Semantics --- Definiteness (Linguistics) --- Définis (Linguistique) --- Indefiniteness (Linguistics) --- Linguistics --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Determiners --- Definiteness (Linguistics). --- Définis (Linguistique)

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This volume explores in detail the empirical and conceptual content of the definiteness effect in grammar. It brings together a variety of relevant observations from a typological, diachronic and a bilingual/second language acquisition perspective, and provides a general overview of different approaches concerned with the syntactic, morphological, semantic, and pragmatic properties of the Definiteness Effect in a series of European and non-European languages.

Definiteness (Linguistics) --- Second language acquisition. --- Second language learning --- Language acquisition --- Indefiniteness (Linguistics) --- Linguistics --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Determiners

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This article explores definiteness as expressed by the determiner system of Malagasy. In particular, noun phrases with and without an overt determiner are compared in terms of familiarity, uniqueness, and other semantic notions commonly associated with definiteness. It is shown that the determiner does not uniformly signal definiteness (as typically understood) and that bare noun phrases can be interpreted as either definite or indefinite. The determiner instead signals the familiarity of the discourse referent of the DP and the absence of a determiner signals a non-familiar DP. In certain syntactic positions, however, where the determiner is either required or banned, the interpretation of DPs is underdetermined.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Definiteness (Linguistics) --- Indefiniteness (Linguistics) --- Linguistics --- Determinatives (Linguistics) --- Determiners (Linguistics) --- Classifiers (Linguistics) --- Determiners. --- Determiners --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Determiners

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Written in the cartographic tradition, this monograph is concerned with the inner structure and derivation of noun phrases. It proposes that demonstratives and definite articles are similar to auxiliaries in the clause. Referencing mostly Germanic languages, the book argues that determiners are base generated below adjectives and subsequently move to the left periphery in a successive-cyclic fashion. Demonstrating that determiners are complex elements, it is proposed that languages vary with regard to when and what part of the determiner they move. This provides a novel account of the variation in the Scandinavian noun phrase. With various copies left behind by moving the determiner, the restrictive and non-restrictive readings of adjectives and relative clauses are suggested to follow from the interpretation of these different copies. The system is extended to the strong and weak adjective inflections in German. Proposing that determiners are auxiliaries in the nominal domain explains these apparently unrelated data in a uniform way.

Grammar --- 801.5 --- Grammatica --- 801.5 Grammatica --- Definiteness (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Noun phrase --- Subject (Grammar) --- Demonstratives (Grammar) --- Indexicals (Semantics) --- Indefiniteness (Linguistics) --- Linguistics --- Demonstratives --- Complex nominals --- Subject --- Nominals --- Deixis --- Determiners --- Definiteness (Linguistics). --- Demonstratives. --- Noun phrase. --- Philology

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Grammar, Comparative and general --- Definiteness (Linguistics) --- Determinatives (Linguistics) --- Determiners (Linguistics) --- Classifiers (Linguistics) --- Indefiniteness (Linguistics) --- Linguistics --- Determiners. --- Determiners --- #KVHA:Comparatieve grammatica --- #KVHA:Taalkunde --- 801.56 --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Grammar --- Definiteness (Linguistics). --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Determiners