Weak Referentiality: 219 (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027257027 ISBN 13: 9789027257024

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2014

Synopsis

This volume brings together studies in the domain of weak referentiality, the phenomenon that a definite or indefinite noun phrase lacks its usual referential force. Several papers investigate syntactic or semantic properties of indefinite noun phrases, such as modality, number neutrality, narrow scope, incorporation, predication, and case marking, and that in a range of languages (Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, German, Papiamentu, Russian). Other papers deal with weakly referential definite noun phrases in various languages (Basque, Dutch, English, French) involving scrambling, modification, possession, and accessibility. The papers demonstrate a range of empirical methods and theoretical models. This volume will not only be of interest to researchers and students in syntax and semantics, but also in psycholinguistics and language typology.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027257027
• ISBN 13: 9789027257024
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 402
• Editor: Aguilar-Guevara Ana, Le Bruyn Bert, Zwarts Joost