Title Nominal determination : typology, context constraints, and historical emergence / edited by Elisabeth Stark, Elisabeth Leiss, Werner Abraham

Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 369 pages) : illustrations Series Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; v. 89 Studies in language companion series ; v. 89. 0165-7763 Contents Nominal Determination; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Synchrony -- and its implications for diachrony; Discourse bindingDP and pronouns in German, Dutch, and English; Gender, number, and indefi nite articles: About the 'typological inconsistency' of Italian; Covert patterns of definiteness/indefiniteness and aspectuality in Old Icelandic, Gothic, and Old High German; The definite article in Indo-European: Emergence of a new grammatical category?; 'No' changes: On the history of German indefinite determiners in the scopeof negation 2. Synchrony -- ontological and typological characteristicsThe functional range of bare singular count nouns in English; The definite article in non-specific direct object noun phrases: Comparing French and Italian; Early functions of definite determiners and DPs in German first language acquisition; 3. Diachrony -- universally unifi ed characteristics?; The discourse-functional crystallizationof the historically original demonstrative; Determinerless noun phrases in Old Romance passives; On the structure and development of nominal phrases in Norwegian The emergence of DP from a perspective of ontogeny and phylogeny: Correlation between DP, TP and aspect in Old English and first language acquisitionDemonstratives and possessives: From Old English to present-day English; Author and subject index; The series Studies in Language Companion Series Summary Three different nominal word orders in Old English through present-day English are investigated, in order to determine whether English has an 'adjectival' possessive similar to Modern Italian. It is argued that the orders a) demonstrative, possessive, noun and b) possessive, demonstrative, noun represent different syntactic constructions, with different paths of development. It is concluded that the a) order represents three different constructions: i) apposition, ii) a possible 'adjectival' possessive, no longer found in Middle English, iii) an Early Modern English focus construction using th Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Determiners. Definiteness (Linguistics) Grammar, Comparative and general -- Nominals. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Determiners -- Congresses Definiteness (Linguistics) -- Congresses Grammar, Comparative and general -- Nominals -- Congresses LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax. Definiteness (Linguistics) Grammar, Comparative and general -- Determiners Grammar, Comparative and general -- Nominals Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings Form Electronic book Author Stark, Elisabeth Leiss, Elisabeth Abraham, Werner LC no. 2007018285 ISBN 9789027292100 9027292108 1282152750 9781282152755 9786612152757 6612152753

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