Definiteness

Name: Definiteness
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521368353
Price: 10200 KES
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ISBN: 9780521368353

by Christopher Lyons

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics

ISBN-10 0521368359

ISBN-13 9780521368353

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Mar 13th, 1999

Print length 404 Pages

Weight 614 grams

Dimensions 15.20 x 22.80 x 3.00 cms

Product Classification: Grammar, syntax & morphology Grammar, syntax and morphology

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Definiteness is the concept expressed by definite articles such as 'the', and also by demonstratives ('this', that') and personal pronouns. This 1999 textbook surveys such expressions in many languages, and examines theoretical literature on this aspect of grammar, to establish what definiteness is and how languages can express it.

This 1999 textbook investigates definiteness both from a comparative and a theoretical point of view, showing how languages express definiteness and what definiteness is. It surveys a large number of languages to discover the range of variation in relation to definiteness and related grammatical phenomena, such as demonstratives, possessives and personal pronouns. It outlines work done on the nature of definiteness in semantics, pragmatics and syntax, and develops an account on which definiteness is a grammatical category represented in syntax as a functional head (the widely discussed D). Consideration is also given to the origins and evolution of definite articles in the light of the comparative and theoretical findings. Among the claims advanced are that definiteness does not occur in all languages, though the pragmatic concept which it grammaticalizes probably does.

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