Book Cover
E-book

Title The Semantics of determiners / edited by Johan van der Auwera
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, New York : Routledge, 2014
©1980

Copies

Description 1 online resource
Series Routledge library editions. Linguistics ; volume 24
Routledge library editions. Linguistics ; v. 24.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Notes on Contributors; Index
Summary This book is a collection of linguistic and philosophical papers dealing with the semantic problems of determiners. The language under investigation is mostly English, although a few papers deal with French and German, and, to a lesser extent, with Dutch, Polish, Russian and Hebrew. The majority of the contributions focus on the semantics of the definite and indefinite articles, leading into discussions of anaphoricness, specificness, opacity and transparency, referentiality and attributiveness and genericness. The relation of the determiners to other parts of grammar, in particular relativ
Notes Originally published in 1980
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Determiners -- Congresses
Semantics -- Congresses
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Determiners
Semantics
Genre/Form Electronic books
Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Auwera, Johan van der, editor or compilation
Antwerp Colloquium on Determiners (1979)
ISBN 9781317933465
131793346X
9781315857350
1315857359
9781317933472
1317933478
9781317933458
1317933451
0415723787
9780415723787
9781138998094
1138998095