The Signs of Determination : Constraint-Based Modelling Across Languages
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
3631565100
ISBN-13
9783631565100
Publisher
Peter Lang AG
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Peter Lang AG
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DE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 20th, 2007
Print length
322 Pages
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432 grams
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15.00 x 21.00 x 1.90 cms
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This study presents a comprehensive treatment of determination, based on English, Italian and other Germanic or Romance languages. Determiners are identified as those dependents of a nominal head that determine the type of reference for the Noun Phrase, covering articles as well as demonstrative, possessive, quantitative, cardinal and ordinal determiners. The work also accounts for their absence with self-determining nominals, like proper names and pronouns. The author’s approach is sign-based, as syntactic, semantic and pragmatic aspects of words or phrases are treated in parallel by a grammar with logical constraints. In particular, the Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) originally proposed by Carl Pollard and Ivan Sag is revised adopting a notion of ‘functor’ which proves ideal for all sorts of determiners.
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