TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stark,Elisabeth
AU  - Leiss,Elisabeth
AU  - Abraham,Werner
TI  - Nominal determination: typology, context constraints, and historical emergence 
T2  - Studies in language companion series,
SN  - 9789027292100
AV  - P299.D48 N66 2007
U1  - 415 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Amsterdam, Philadelphia
PB  - John Benjamins Pub.
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general
KW  - Determiners
KW  - Definiteness (Linguistics)
KW  - Nominals
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Déterminants (Linguistique)
KW  - Congrès
KW  - Définis (Linguistique)
KW  - Nominaux
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
KW  - Grammar & Punctuation
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - Syntax
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - 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
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